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MATURIN  M.  BALLOU, 

AUTHOB  OP  THB  "  TREASUBT  OF  THOUGHT,"  "HISTORY  OF  CUBA, 
"BIOOBAPHT  of  HOSBA  BAILOU,"  ETC.,  ETC.        i 


h\finite  riehea  in  a  Kttle  room. — Mabiowb. 


BOSTON: 
HOUGHTON,  MIFFLIN  AND  COMPANY. 

1881. 


COPTBIGHT,  1880, 

By  MATURIN  M.  BALLOU. 
All  rights  reserved. 


J^.t  WiZS 


The  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge : 
Electrotyped  and  Printed  by  H.  0.  Houghton  &  Co. 


To 
MY  WIFE, 

THK  PATIENT  AND   CHEEEFCL  ASSOCIATE  OP  MT  STUDIES, 

AFTER  MORE  THAN  FORTY  TEARS  Of 

HAPPT  COMPANIONSHIP, 

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IS  AFFECTIONATELY  DEDICATED 
BY 

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MlSS^lD 


Writers  of  an  abler  sort, 
"Whose  wit  well  managed,  and  whose  classic  style, 
Give  Truth  a  lustre,  and  make  "Wisdom  smile. 

COWPER. 

General  observations  drawn  from  particulars  are  the  jewels 
of  knowledge,  comprehending  great  store  in  a  little  room. 

Locke. 

Out  of  monuments,  names,  wordes,  proverbs,  traditions, 
private  recordes,  and  evidences,  fragments  of  stories,  passages 
of  bookes,  and  the  like,  we  doe  save  and  recover  somewhat 
from  the  deluge  of  time.  Bacon. 

I  would  fain  coin  wisdom,  —  mould  it,  I  mean,  into  max- 
ims, proverbs,  sentences,  that  can  easily  be  retained  and 
transmitted.  Joubert. 


PREFACE. 


A  verse  Biay  find  him  whom  a  sermon  flies. 

George  Hebbebt. 

The  volume  herewith  presented  is  the  natural 
result  of  the  compiler's  habit  of  transferring  and 
classifying  significant  passages  from  known  au- 
thors. No  special  course  of  reading  has  been 
pursued,  the  thoughts  being  culled  from  foreign 
and  native  tongues — from  the  moss-grown  tomes 
of  ancient  literature  and  the  verdant  fields  of  to- 
day. The  terse  periods  of  others,  appropriately 
quoted,  become  in  a  degree  our  own ;  and  a  just 
estimation  is  very  nearly  allied  to  originality,  or, 
as  the  author  of  Vanity  Fair  tells  us,  "  Next  to 
excellence  is  the  appreciation  of  it."  Without 
indorsing  the  idea  of  a  modern  authority  that  the 
multiplicity  of  facts  and  writings  is  becoming  so 
great  that  every  available  book  must  soon  be 
composed  of  extracts  only,  still  it  is  believed  that 
such  a  volume  as  "  Pearls  of  Thought "  will  serve 
the  interest  of  general  literature,  and  especially 
stimulate  the  mind  of  the  thoughtful  reader  to 
further  research.    The  pleasant  duty  of  the  com- 


viii  PREFACE. 

piler  has  been  to  follow  the  expressive  idea  of 
Colton,  and  he  has  made  the  same  use  of  books 
as  a  bee  does  of  flowers,  —  she  steals  the  sweets 
from  them,  but  does  not  injure  them. 

To  the  observant  reader  many  familiar  quota- 
tions will  naturally  occur,  the  absence  of  which 
may  seem  a  singular  omission  in  such  a  connec- 
tion and  classification,  but  doubtless  such  excerpts 
will  be  found  in  the  "Treasury  of  Thought," 
a  much  more  extended  work  by  the  same  author, 
to  which  this  volume  is  properly  a  supplement. 
Of  course  care  has  been  taken  not  to  repeat  any 
portion  of  the  previous  collection. 

M.  M.  B. 


PEAELS  OF  THOUGHT. 


Ability.  —  Natural  abilities  can  almost  compen- 
sate for  the  want  of  every  kind  of  cultivation,  but  no 
cultivation  of  the  mind  can  make  up  for  the  want 
of  natural  abilities.  —  Schopenhaufer. 

Words  must  be  fitted  to  a  man's  mouth,  —  'twas 
well  said  of  the  fellow  that  was  to  make  a  speech 
for  my  Lord  Mayor,  when  he  desired  to  take  meas- 
ure of  his  lordship's  mouth.  —  Selden. 

Absence. —  Absence  in  love  is  like  water  upon 
fire;  a  little  quickens,  but  much  extinguishes  it. — 
Hannah  More. 

Absence  from  those  we  love  is  sel^  from  self!  A 
deadly  banishment.  —  Shakespeare. 

Short  retirement  urges  sweet  return.  —  Milton. 

Whatever  is  genuine  in  social  relations  endures 
despite  of  time,  error,  absence,  and  destiny;  and 
that  which  has  no  inherent  vitality  had  better  die  at 
once.  A  great  poet  has  truly  declared  that  con- 
stancy is  no  virtue,  but  a  fact.  —  Tuckerman. 

Frozen  by  distance.  —  Wordsworth. 

Short  absence  quickens  love,  long  absence  kills  it. 
—  Miraheau. 

We  often  wish  most  for  our  friends  when  they  are 
absent.  Even  in  married  life  love  is  not  diminished 
by  distance.  A  man,  like  a  burning-glass,  should  be 
placed  at  a  certain  distance  from  the  object  he  wishes 


ABS  .2  ACT 

to  dissolve,  in  order  that  the  proper  focus  may  be 
obtained.  —  Richter. 

Abstinence. —  Refrain  to-night,  and  that  shall 
lend  a  hand  of  easiness  to  the  next  abstinence;  the 
next  more  easy ;  for  use  almost  can  change  the 
stamp  of  nature,  and  either  curb  the  devil,  or  throw 
him  out  with  wondrous  potency.  —  Shakespeare. 

Abuse. —  Abuse  is  not  so  dangerous  when  there 
is  no  vehicle  of  wit  or  delicacy,  no  subtle  convey- 
ance. The  difference  between  coarse  and  refined 
abuse  is  as  the  difference  between  being  bruised  by 
a  club  and  wounded  by  a  poisoned  arrow.  —  John- 
son. 

Accident. —  What  reason,  like  the  careful 
ant,  draws  laboriously  together,  the  wind  of  accident 
collects  in  one  brief  moment.  —  Schiller. 

What  men  call  accident  is  God's  own  part.  —  P.  J. 

Bailey. 

Acquirements.  —  Every  noble  acquisition  is 
attended  with  its  risks:  he  who  fears  to  encounter  the 
one  must  not  expect  to  obtain  the  other.  —  Aletas- 
tasio. 

Action.  — Action  can  have  no  effect  upon  rea- 
sonable minds.  It  may  augment  noise,  but  it  never 
can  enforce  argument.  If  you  speak  to  a  dog,  you 
use  action;  you  hold  up  your  hand  thus,  because  he 
is  a  brute;  and  in  proportion  as  men  are  removed 
from  brutes,  action  will  have  the  less  influence  upon 
them.  —  Johnson. 

Heaven  ne'er  helps  the  man  who  will  not  act.  — 
Sophocles. 

When  Demosthenes  was  asked  what  was  the  first 
part  of  an  orator,  what  the  second,  and  what  the 
third?  he  answered,  "Action."  The  same  may  I 
say.  If  any  should  ask  me  what  is  the  first,  the 
second,  the  third  part  of  a  Christian,  I  must  answer, 
"Action."  — r.  Brooks. 


ACT  8  ACT 

Our  best  conjectures,  as  to  the  true  spring  of  ac- 
tions, are  very  uncertain;  the  actions  themselves  are 
all  we  must  pretend  to  know  from  history.  That 
Ca3sar  was  murdered  by  twenty -four  conspirators, 
I  doubt  not;  but  I  very  much  doubt  whether  their 
love  of  liberty  was  the  sole  cause.  —  Cliesler field. 

.  Action  is  generally  defective,  and  proves  an  abor- 
tion without  previous  contemplation.  Contempla- 
tion generates,  action  propagates.  —  Owen  Feltham. 

Remember  you  have  not  a  sinew  whose  law  of 
strength  is  not  action;  you  have  not  a  faculty  of 
body,  mind,  or  soul,  whose  law  of  improvement  is 
not  energy.  —  E.  B.  Hall. 

Our  actions  must  clothe  us  with  an  immortality 
loathsome  or  glorious.  —  Colton. 

Outward  actions  can  never  give  a  just  estimate  of 
us,  since  there  are  many  perfections  of  a  man  which 
are  not  capable  of  appearing  in  actions.  — Addison. 

Mark  this  well,  ye  proud  m^n  of  action!  Ye  are, 
after  all,  nothing  but  unconscious  instruments  of  the 
men  of  thought.  — Heinrich  Heine. 

Actors.  —  Players,  sir!  I  look  upon  them  as 
no  better  than  creatures  set  upon  tables  and  joint 
stools  to  make  faces  and  produce  laughter,  like  dan- 
cing dogs.  But,  sir,  you  will  allow  that  some  players 
are  better  than  others?  Yes,  sir;  as  some  dogs  dance 
better  than  others.  —  Johnson. 

Each  under  his  borrowed  guise  the  actor  belongs 
to  himself.  He  has  put  on  a  mask,  beneath  it  his 
real  face  still  exists ;  he  has  throAvn  himself  into  a 
foreign  individuality,  which  in  some  sense  forms  a 
shelter  to  the  integrity  of  his  own  character;  he  may 
indeed  wear  festive  attire,  but  his  mourning  is  be- 
neath it;  he  may  smile,  divert,  act,  his  soul  is  still 
his  own;  his  inner  life  is  undisturbed;  no  indiscreet 
question  will  lift  the  veil,  no  coarse  hand  will  burst 
open  the  gates  of  the  sanctuary.  —  Countess  de  Gas- 
parin. 


ACT  4  ADM 

Oh,  there  be  players  that  I  have  seen  play,  and 
heard  others  praise,  and  that  highly,  not  to  speak 
it  profanely,  that,  neither  having  the  accent  of 
Christians,  nor  the  gait  of  Christian,  pagan,  or 
man,  have  so  strutted  and  bellowed,  that  I  have 
thought  some  of  Nature's  journeymen  had  made 
men,  and  not  made  them  well,  they  imitated  human- 
ity so  abominably  1  —  Shakespeare. 

An  actor  should  take  lessons  from  a  painter  and 
a  sculptor.  For  an  actor  to  represent  a  Greek  hero 
it  is  imperative  he  should  have  thoroughly  studied 
those  antique  statues  which  have  lasted  to  our  day, 
and  mastered  the  particular  grace  they  exhibited  in 
their  postures,  whether  sitting,  standing,  or  walking. 
Nor  should  he  make  attitude  his  only  study.  He 
should  highly  develop  his  mind  by  an  assiduous 
study  of  the  best  writers,  ancient  and  modern,  which 
will  enable  him  not  only  to  understand  his  parts, 
but  to  communicate  a  nobler  coloring  to  his  manners 
and  mien.  —  Goethe. 

Admiration.  —  Admiration  and  love  are  like 
being  intoxicated  with  champagne;  judgment  and 
friendship  like  being  enlivened.  —  Johnson. 

Season  your  admiration  for  a  while.  —  Shakespeare. 

I  wonder  whether  the  subtle  measuring  of  forces 
will  ever  come  to  measuring  the  force  there  would 
be  in  one  beautiful  woman  whose  mind  was  as  noble 
as  her  face  was  beautiful — who  made  a  man's  pas- 
sion for  her  rush  in  one  current  with  all  the  great 
aims  of  his  life.  —  George  Eliot. 

Admiration  is  the  base  of  ignorance.  ^—  Balthasar 
Gracian. 

It  is  better  in  some  respects  to  be  admired  by 
those  with  whom  you  live,  than  to  be  loved  by  them. 
And  this  not  on  account  of  any  gratification  of 
vanity,  but  because  admiration  is  so  much  more 
tolerant  than  love.  — Arthur  Helps. 


ADM  5  AFF 

Admiration  is  a  forced  tribute,  and  to  extort  it 
from  mankind  (envious  and  ignorant  as  they  are) 
they  must  be  taken  unawares.  —  James  Northcote. 

Adversity.  — If  adversity  hath  killed  his  thou- 
sands, prosperity  hath  killed  his  ten  thousands;  there- 
fore adversity  is  to  be  preferred.  The  one  deceives, 
the  other  instructs;  the  one  miserably  happy,  the 
other  happily  miserable  ;  and  therefore  many  philoso- 
phers have  voluntarily  sought  adversity  and  so  much 
commend  it  in  their  precepts.  —  Burton. 

Adversity  borrows  its  sharpest  sting  from  our  im- 
patience. —  Bishop  Home. 

Adversity  is  like  the  period  of  the  former  and  of 
the  latter  rain,  — cold,  comfortless,  unfriendly  to 
man  and  to  animal ;  yet  from  that  season  have  their 
birth  the  flower  and  the  fruit,  the  date,  the  rose, 
and  the  pomegranate.  —  Walter  Scott. 

Two  powerful  destroyers :  Time  and  Adversity.  — 
A.  de  Musset. 

Our  dependence  upon  God  ought  to  be  so  entire 
and  absolute  that  we  should  never  think  it  necessary, 
in  any  kind  of  distress,  to  have  recourse  to  human 
consolation.  —  Thomas  a  Kempis. 

Adversity,  like  winter  weather,  is  of  use  to  kill 
those  vermin  which  the  summer  of  prosperity  is  apt 
to  produce  and  nourish.  —  Arro^osmith. 

Adversity,  how  blunt  are  all  the  arrows  of  thy 
quiver  in  comparison  with  those  of  Guilt!  —  Blair. 

Advice.  —  People  are  sooner  reclaimed  by  the 
side  wind  of  a  surprise  than  by  downright  admo- 
nition. —  U  Estrange. 

Agreeable  advice  is  seldom  useful  advice.  —  MaS' 
sillon. 

Affectation  .  — All  affectation  proceeds  from 
the  supposition  of  possessing  something  better  than 
the  rest  of  the  world  possesses.     Nobody  is  vain  of 


AFF  6  AFF 

possessing  two  legs  and  two  arms,  because  that  is 
the  precise  quantity  of  either  sort  of  limb  which 
everybody  possesses.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Affectation  is  certain  deformity.  —  Blair. 

Affection.  —  None  of  the  affections  have  been 
noted  to  fascinate  and  bewitch,  but  love  and  envy. 
—  Bacon. 

None  are  so  desolate  but  something  dear,  dearer 
than  self,  possesses  or  possess'd. — Byron. 

Those  childlike  caresses  which  are  the  bent  of 
every  sweet  woman,  who  has  begun  by  showering 
kisses  on  the  hard  pate  of  her  bald  doll,  creating  a 
happy  soul  within  that  woodenness  from  the  wealth 
of  her  own  love.  —  George  Eliot. 

God  give  us  leisure  for  these  rights  of  love. — 
Shakespeare. 

Afflictions  .  — Before  an  affliction  is  digested, 
consolation  comes  too  soon;  and  after  it  is  dig  sted, 
it  comes  too  late;  but  there  is  a  mark  between  these 
two,  as  fine,  almost,  as  a  hair,  for  a  comforter  to 
take  aim  at.  —  Sterne. 

Stars  shine  brightest  in  the  darkest  night;  torches 
are  better  for  beating;  grapes  come  not  to  the  proof 
till  they  come  to  the  press;  spices  smell  best  when 
bruised;  young  trees  root  the  faster  for  shaking; 
gold  looks  brighter  for  scouring;  juniper  smells  sweet- 
est in  the  fire;  the  palm-tree  proves  the  better  for 
pressing;  chamomile,  the  more  you  tread  it,  the 
more  you  spread  it.  Such  is  the  condition  of  all 
God's  children:  they  are  then  most  triumphant  when 
most  tempted;  most  glorious  when  most  afflicted. — ■ 
Bogatzky. 

That  which  thou  dost  not  understand  when  thou 
readest,  thou  shalt  understand  in  the  day  of  thy 
visitation.  For  many  secrets  of  religion  are  not  per- 
ceived till  they  be  felt,  and  are  not  felt  but  in  the 
day  of  a  great  calamity.  — Jeremy  Taylor. 


AFF  7  AGE 

Nothing  so  much  increases  one's  reverence  for 
others  as  a  great  sorrow  to  one's  self.  It  teaches  one 
the  depths  of  human  nature.  In  happiness  we  are 
shallow,  and  deem  others  so.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Affliction,  like  the  iron-smith,  shapes  as  it  smites. 

—  Bovee. 

Afflictions  sent  by  Providence  melt  the  constancy 
of  the  noble-minded  but  confirm  the  obduracy  of 
the  vile.  The  same  furnace  that  hardens  clay 
liquefies  gold;  and  in  the  strong  manifestations  of 
divine  power  Pharoah  found  his  punishment,  but 
David  his  pardon.  —  Colton. 

Though  all  afflictions  are  evils  in  themselves,  yet 
they  are  good  for  us,  because  ihey  discover  to  us 
our  disease  and  tend  to  our  cure.  —  Tillotson. 

To  love  all  mankind,  from  the  greatest  to  the 
lowest  (or  meanest),  a  cheerful  state  of  being  is  re- 
quired; but  in  order  to  see  into  mankind,  into  life, 
and,  still  more,  into  ourselves,  suffering  is  requisite. 

—  Michter. 

Count  up  man's  calamities  and  who  would  seem 
happy?  But  in  truth,  calamity  leaves  fully  half  of 
your  life  untouched.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Age.  —  "Wrinkles  are  the  tomb  of  love.  —  Sarro- 

sin. 

It  cuts  one  sadly  to  see  the  grief  of  old  people; 
they  've  no  way  o'  working  it  off ;  and  the  new 
spring  brings  no  new  shoots  out  on  the  withered 
tree.  —  George  Eliot. 

Autumnal  green.  —  Dryden. 

Ye  old  men,  brief  is  the  space  of  life  allotted  to 
you  ;  pass  it  as  pleasantly  as  ye  can,  not  grieving 
from  morning  till  eve.  Since  time  knows  not  how 
to  preserve  our  hopes,  but,  attentive  to  its  own  con- 
cerns, flies  away.  —  Euripides. 

The  Grecian  ladies  counted  their  age  from  their 
marriage,  not  their  birth.  —  Homer. 


AGE  8  AGI 

Tlie  vices  of  old  age  have  the  stiffness  of  it  too  ; 
and  as  it  is  the  unfittest  time  to  learn  in,  so  the  un- 
fitness of  it  to  unlearn  will  be  found  much  greater. 

—  South. 

Old  men's  eyes  are  like  old  men's  memories  ;  they 
are  strongest  for  things  a  long  way  off.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Serene,  and  safe  from  passion's  stormy  rage,  how 
calm  they  glide  into  the  port  of  age  !  —  Shenstone. 

Providence  gives  us  notice  by  sensible  declensions, 
that  we  may  disengage  from  the  world  by  degrees. 

—  Jeremy  Collier. 

Age  oppresses  by  the  same  degrees  that  it  in- 
structs us,  and  permits  not  that  our  mortal  mem- 
bers, which  are  frozen  with  our  years,  should  retain 
the  vigor  of  our  youth.  —  Dryden. 

Old  age  adds  to  the  respect  due  to  virtue,  but  it 
takes  nothing  from  the  contempt  inspired  by  vice, 
for  age  whitens  only  the  hair.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 

Up  to  forty  a  woman  has  only  forty  springs  in  her 
heart.     After  that  age  she  has  only  forty  winters. 

—  Arshie  Houssaye. 

I  love  everything  that 's  old.  Old  friends,  old 
times,  old  manners,  old  books,  old  wine.  —  Gold- 
smith. 

Let  us  respect  gray  hairs,  especially  our  own.  — /. 
Petit  Senn. 

There  are  two  things  which  grow  stronger  in  the 
breast  of  man,  in  proportion  as  he  advances  in  years; 
the  love  of  country  and  religion.  Let  them  be  never 
so  much  forgotten  in  youth,  they  sooner  or  later  pre- 
sent themselves  to  us  arrayed  in  all  their  charms, 
and  excite  in  the  recesses  of  our  hearts  an  attach- 
ment justly  due  to  their  beauty.  —  Chateaubriand. 

Agitation.  —  Agitation  is  the  marshaling  of 
the  conscience  of  a  nation  to  mould  its  laws.  —  Sir 
R.  Peel. 


AGI  9  AMB 

Agitation  is  the  method  that  plants  the  school  by 
the  side  of  the  ballot-box. — Wendell  Phillips. 

Agitation  prevents  rebellion,  keeps  the  peace,  and 
secures  progress.  Every  step  she  gains  is  gained 
forever.  Muskets  are  the  weapons  of  animals.  Agi- 
tation is  the  atmosphere  of  the  brains.  —  Wendell 
Phillips. 

Agriculture.  —  Agriculture  is  the  foundation 
of  manufactures,  since  the  productions  of  nature  are 
the  materials  of  art.  —  Gibbon. 

Agriculture  not  only  gives  riches  to  a  nation  but 
the  only  riches  she  can  call  her  own.  — Johnson. 

Let  the  farmer  for  evermore  be  honored  in  his  call- 
ing, for  they  who  labor  in  the  earth  are  the  chosen 
people  of  God.  —  Thomas  Jefferson. 

Allegory.  —  Allegories  and  spiritual  significa- 
tions, when  applied  to  faith,  and  that  seldom,  are 
laudable;  but  when  they  are  drawn  from  the  life  and 
conversation,  they  are  dangerous,  and,  when  men 
make  too  many  of  them,  pervert  the  doctrine  of  faith. 
Allegories  are  fine  ornaments,  but  not  of  proof. — 
Luther. 

The  allegory  of  a  sophist  is  always  screwed;  it 
crouches  and  bows  like  a  snake,  which  is  never 
straight,  whether  she  go,  creep,  or  lie  still  ;  only 
when  she  is  dead,  she  is  straight  enough.  —  Luther. 

Ambition.  —  It  was  not  till  after  the  terrible 
passage  of  the  bridge  of  Lodi  that  the  idea  entered 
my  mind  that  I  might  become  a  decisive  actor  in  the 
political  arena.  Then  arose  for  the  first  time  the 
spark  of  great  ambition.  —  Napoleon. 

Well  is  it  known  that  ambition  can  creep  as  well 
as  soar.  The  pride  of  no  person  in  a  flourishing  con- 
dition is  more  justly  to  be  dreaded  than  that  of  him 
who  is  mean  and  cringing  under  a  doubtful  and  un- 
prosperous  fortune.  —  Burke. 


AMB  10  AME 

If  there  is  ever  a  time  to  be  ambitious,  it  is  not 
when  ambition  is  easy,  but  when  it  is  hard.  Fight 
in  darkness;  fight  when  you  are  down;  die  hard,  and 
you  won't  die  at  all.  — BeecJier. 

By  that  sin  angels  fell.  —  Shakespeare. 

Where  ambition  can  be  so  happy  as  to  cover  its 
enterprises,  even  to  tlie  person  himself,  under  the 
appearance  of  principle,  it  is  the  most  incurable  and 
inflexible  of  all  human  passions.  —  Hume. 

An  ardent  thirst  of  honor;  a  soul  unsatisfied  with 
all  it  has  done,  and  an  unextinguished  desire  of 
doing  more.  —  Dry  den. 

Ambition  is  but  the  evil  shadow  of  aspiration.  — 
George  MacDonald. 

Think  not  ambition  wise, because  'tis  brave. —  Sir 
W.  Davenant. 

Soar  not  too  high  to  fall,  but  stoop  to  rise.  —  Mas- 
singer. 

America.  —  Child  of  the  earth's  old  age.  —  L. 
E.  Langdon. 

The  name — American,  must  always  exalt  the 
pride  of  patriotism.  —  Washington. 

In  America  we  see  a  country  of  which  it  has  been 
truly  said  that  in  no  other  are  there  so  few  men  of 
great  learning  and  so  few  men  of  great  ignorance. — 
Buckle. 

America  is  as  yet  in  the  youth  and  gristle  of  her 
strength.  —  Burke. 

If  all  Europe  were  to  become  a  prison,  America 
would  still  present  a  loop-hole  of  escape;  and,  God 
be  praised !  that  loop-hole  is  larger  than  the  dungeon 
itself.  — Heinrich  Heine. 

Ere  long,  thine  every  stream  shall  find  a  tongue, 
land  of  the  many  waters.  —  Hoffman. 

America  is  rising  with  a  giant's  strength.  Its  bones 
are  yet  but  cartilages.  —  Fisher  Ames. 


AMU  11  ANC 

Amusement.  —  Amusement  is  the  waking 
sleep  of  labor.  When  it  absorbs  thought,  patience, 
and  strength  that  might  have  been  seriously  em- 
ployed, it  loses  its  distinctive  character,  and  be- 
comes the  task-master  of  idleness. — Willmott. 

Analogy.  —  Analogy,  although  it  is  not  infalli- 
ble, is  yet  that  telescope  of  the  mind  by  which  it  is 
marvelously  assisted  in  the  discovery  of  both  physi- 
cal and  moral  truth.  —  Colton. 

Anarchy.  —  The  choking,  sweltering,  deadly, 
and  killing  rule  of  no  rule;  the  consecration  of  cu- 
pidity and  braying  of  folly,  and  dim  stupidity  and 
baseness,  in  most  of  the  affairs  of  men.  Slop-shirts 
attainable  three-half-pence  cheaper  by  the  ruin  of 
living  bodies  and  immortal  souls.  —  Carlyle. 

Ancestry.  —  We  take  rank  by  descent.  Such 
of  us  as  have  the  longest  pedigree,  and  are  therefore 
the  furthest  removed  from  the  first  who  made  the 
fortune  and  founded  the  family,  we  are  the  noblest. 
The  nearer  to  the  fountain  the  fouler  the  stream  : 
and  that  first  ancestor  who  has  soiled  his  fingers  by 
labor  is  no  better  than  a  parvenu.  —  Froude. 

Breed  is  Wronger  than  pasture.  —  George  Eliot, 

The  glory  of  ancestors  sheds  a  light  around  pos- 
terity ;  it  allows  neither  their  good  nor  bad  qualities 
to  remain  in  obscurity.  —  Sallust. 

Nobility  of  birth  does  not  always  insure  a  corre- 
sponding nobility  of  mind  ;  if  it  did,  it  would  always 
act  as  a  stimulus  to  noble  actions;  liut  it  sometimes 
acts  as  a  clog  rather  than  a  spur.  —  Colton. 

Honorable  descent  is  in  all  nations  greatly  es- 
teemed ;  besides,  it  is  to  be  expected  that  the  chil- 
dren of  men  of  worth  will  be  like  their  fathers,  for 
nobility  is  the  virtue  of  a  family.  — Aristotle. 

A  long  series  of  ancestors  shows  the  native  lustre 
with  advantage ;  but  if  he  any  way  degenerate  from 
his  line,  the  least  spot  is  visible  on  ermine.  —  Dryden, 


ANC  12  ANG 

The  happiest  lot  for  a  man,  as  far  as  birth  is  con- 
cerned, is  that  it  should  be  such  as  to  give  him  but 
little  occasion  to  think  much  about  it.  —  Whately. 

Ancients.  —  In  tragedy  and  satire  I  maintain, 
against  some  critics,  that  this  age  and  the  last  have 
excelled  the  ancients ;  and  1  would  instance  in 
Shakespeare  of  the  former,  in  Dorset  of  the  latter. 
—  Dryden. 

Tliough  the  knowledge  they  have  left  us  be  worth 
our  study,  yet  they  exliausted  not  all  its  treasures  ; 
they  left  a  great  deal  for  the  industry  and  sagacity 
of  after-ages.  —  Locke. 

Angels. — In  old  days  there  were  angels  who 
came  and  took  men  by  the  hand  and  led  them  away 
from  the  city  of  destruction.  We  see  no  white- 
winged  angels  now.  But  yet  men  are  led  away  from 
threatening  destruction  :  a  hand  is  put  in  theirs, 
which  leads  them  forth  gently  towards  a  calm  and 
bright  land,  so  that  they  look  no  more  backward  ; 
and  the  hand  may  be  a  little  child's.  —  George  Eliot. 

Millions  of  spiritual  creatures  walk  the  earth  tm- 
seen,  both  when  we  wake  and  when  we  sleep.  —  Mil- 
ton. 

Anger.  —  If  a  man  meets  with  injustice,  it  is 
not  required  that  he  shall  not  be  roused  to  meet  it ; 
but  if  he  is  angry  after  he  has  had  time  to  think  upon 
it,  that  is  sinful.  The  flame  is  not  wrong,  but  the 
coals  are.  —  Beeclier. 

Temperate  anger  well  becomes  the  wise.  —  Phile- 
mon. 

When  anger  rushes,  unrestrained,  to  action,  like 
a  hot  steed,  it  stumbles  in  its  way.  —  Savage. 

Bad  temper  is  its  own  scourge.  Few  things  are 
bitterer  than  to  feel  bitter.  A  man's  venom  poisons 
himself  more  than  his  victim.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Above  all,  gentlemen,  no  heat. —  Talleyrand. 


ANG  13  ANT 

Anger  ventilated  often  hurries  towards  forgive- 
ness ;  anger  concealed  often  hardens  into  revenge. 
—  Bulwer-Lytion. 

Keep  cool  and  you  command  everybody.  —  St. 
Just. 

I  never  work  better  than  when  I  am  inspired  by 
anger ;  when  I  am  angry  I  can  write,  pray,  and 
preach  well ;  for  then  my  whole  temperament  is 
quickened,  my  understanding  sharpened,  and  all 
mundane  vexations  and  temptations  depart.  — Luther. 

When  one  is  in  a  good  sound  rage,  it  is  aston- 
ishing how  calm  one  can  be.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Angling.— I  give  up  fly-fishing;  it  is  a  light, 
volatile,  dissipated  pursuit.  But  ground-bait  with  a 
good  steady  float  that  never  bobs  without  a  bite  is 
an  occupation  for  a  bishop,  and  in  no  way  interferes 
with  sermon-making.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

He  that  reads  Plutarch  shall  find  that  angling  was 
not  contemptible  in  the  days  of  Mark  Antony  and 
Cleopatra.  —  Izaak  Walton. 

Idle  time  not  idly  spent.  —  Sir  Henry  Wotton. 

To  see  the  fish  cut  with  her  golden  oars  the  silver 
stream  and  greedily  devour  the  treacherous  bait.  — 
Shakespeare. 

Anticipation.  —  It  has  been  well  said  that 
no  man  ever  sank  under  the  burden  of  the  day.  It 
is  when  to-morrow's  burden  is  added  to  the  burden 
of  to-day  that  the  weight  is  more  than  a  man  can 
bear.  —  George  MacDonald. 

The  craving  for  a  delicate  fruit  is  pleasanter  than 
the  fruit  itself.  —  Herder. 

The  hours  we  pass  with  happy  prospects  in  view 
are  more  pleasing  than  those  crowned  with  fruition. 
In  the  first  instance,  we  cook  the  dish  to  our  own 
appetite;  in  the  latter,  nature  cooks  it  for  us. — 
Goldsmith. 


ANT  14  APO 

We  are  apt  to  rely  upon  future  prospects,  and  be- 
come really  expensive  while  we  are  only  rich  in  pos- 
sibility. We  live  up  to  our  expectations,  not  to  our 
possessions,  and  make  a  figure  proportionable  to  what 
we  may  be,  not  what  we  are.  We  outrun  our  pres- 
ent income,  as  not  doubting  to  disburse  ourselves 
out  of  the  profits  of  some  future  place,  project,  or 
reversion  that  we  have  in  view.  —  Addison. 

Nothing  is  so  good  as  it  seems  beforehand. —  George 
Eliot. 

Antiquarian.  —  A  thorough-paced  antiqua- 
rian not  only  remembers  what  all  other  people  have 
thought  proper  to  forget,  but  he  also  forgets  what 
all  other  people  think  it  proper  to  remember.  —  Col- 
ton. 

The  earliest  and  the  longest  has  still  the  mastery 
over  us.  —  George  Eliot. 

Antithesis.  —  Young  people  are  dazzled  by 
the  brilliancy  of  antithesis,  and  employ  it.  — Bruyere. 

Antithesis  may  be  the  blossom  of  wit,  but  it  will 
never  arrive  at  maturity  unless  sound  sense  be  the 
trunk,  and  truth  the  root.  —  Colton. 

Apology.  —  An  apology  in  the  original  sense 
was  a  pleading  off  from  some  charge  or  imputation, 
by  explaining  or  defending  principles  or  conduct. 
It  therefore  amounted  to  a  vindication.  —  Crabbe. 

Brother,  brother,  we  are  both  in  the  wrong.  — 
Gag. 

Apothegms.  —  Nor  do  apothegms  only  serve 
for  ornament  and  delight,  but  also  lor  action  and 
civil  use,  as  being  the  edge  tools  of  speech,  which 
cut  and  penetrate  the  knots  of  business  and  affairs. 
—  Bacon. 

Exclusively  of  the  abstract  sciences,  the  largest 
and  worthiest  portion  of  our  knowledge  consists  of 
aphorisms,  and  the  greatest  and  best  of  men  is  but 
an  aphorism.  —  Coleridge. 


APO  15  APP 

Proverbs  are  potted  wisdom.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Appeal.  —  Seeing  all  men  are  not  CEdipuses  to 
read  the  riddle  of  another  man's  inside,  and  most 
men  judge  by  appearances,  it  behooves  a  man  to 
barter  for  a  good  esteem,  even  from  his  clothes  and 
outside.  We  guess  the  goodness  of  the  pasture  by 
the  mantle  we  see  it  wears.  — Feltham. 

Appearances.  —  It  is  the  appearances  that  fill 
the  scene ;  and  we  pause  not  to  ask  of  what  realities 
they  are  the  proxies.  When  the  actor  of  Athens 
moved  all  hearts  as  he  clasped  the  burial  urn,  and 
burst  into  broken  sobs,  how  few  then  knew  that  it 
held  the  ashes  of  his  son  1  —  Bulicer-Lytton, 

What  waste,  what  misery,  what  bankruptcy,  come 
from  all  this  ambition  to  dazzle  others  with  the  glare 
of  apparent  worldly  success,  we  need  not  describe. 
The  mischievous  results  show  themselves  in  a  thou- 
sand ways  —  in  the  rank  frauds  committed  by  men 
who  dare  to  be  dishonest,  but  do  not  dare  to  seem 
poor;  and  in  the  desperate  dashes  at  fortune,  in 
which  the  pity  is  not  so  much  for  those  who  fail,  as 
for  the  hundreds  of  innocent  families  who  are  so 
often  involved  in  their  ruin.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

Foolish  men  mistake  transitory  semblances  for 
eternal  fact,  and  go  astray  more  and  more. — Carlyle, 

What  is  a  good  appearance  ?  It  is  not  being  pom- 
pous and  starchy ;  for  proud  looks  lose  hearts,  and 
gentle  words  win  them.  It  is  not  wearing  fine 
clothes ;  for  such  dressing  tells  the  world  that  the 
outside  is  the  better  part  of  the  man.  You  cannot 
judge  a  horse  by  his  harness ;  but  a  modest,  gentle- 
manly appearance,  in  which  the  dress  is  such  as  no 
one  could  comment  upon,  is  the  right  and  most  de- 
sirable thing.  —  Spurgeon. 

He  was  a  man  who  stole  the  livery  of  the  court  of 
heaven  to  serve  the  devil  in.  —  Pollok. 


APP  16  APP 

I  more  and  more  see  this,  that  we  judge  men's 
abilities  less  from  what  they  say  or  do,  than  from 
what  they  look.  'T  is  the  man's  face  that  gives  him 
weight.  His  doings  help,  but  not  more  than  his 
brow.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Appetite.  —  Some  people  have  a  foolish  way 
of  not  minding,  or  pretending  not  to  mind,  what 
they  eat.  For  my  part,  I  mind  very  studiously  ;  for 
I  look  upon  it,  that  he  who  does  not  mind  this,  will 
hardly  mind  anything  else.  —  Johnson. 

Here  's  neither  want  of  appetite  nor  mouths;  pray 
Heaven  we  be  not  scant  of  meat  or  mirth.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

This  dish  of  meat  is  too  good  for  any  but  anglers, 
or  very  honest  men.  —  Izaak  Walton. 

And  do  as  adversaries  do  in  law, —  strive  mightily, 
but  eat  and  drink  as  friends.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  table  is  the  only  place  where  we  do  not  get 
weary  during  the  first  hour.  —  Brillat  Savarin. 

Appreciation.  —  Contemporaries  appreciate 
the  man  rather  than  the  merit;  but  posterity  will 
reo^ard  the  merit  rather  than  the  man.  —  Colton, 

o 

It  so  falls  out  that  what  we  have  we  prize  not  to 
the  worth  while  we  enjoy  it;  but  being  lacked  and 
lost,  why,  then  we  rack  the  value.  —  Shakespeare. 

A  man  is  known  to  his  dog  by  the  smell  —  to  the 
tailor  by  the  coat  —  to  his  friend  by  the  smile; 
each  of  these  know  him,  but  how  little  or  how  much 
depends  on  the  dignity  of  the  intelligence.  That 
which  is  truly  and  indeed  characteristic  of  man  is 
known  only  to  God.  —  Ruskin. 

He  who  seems  not  to  himself  more  than  he  is,  is 
more  than  he  seems.  —  Goethe. 

Light  is  above  us,  and  color  surrounds  us  ;  but 
if  we  have  not  light  and  color  in  our  eyes,  we  shall 
not  perceive  them  outside  us.  —  Goethe. 


APP  17  ARG 

When  a  nation  gives  birth  to  a  man  who  is  able 
to  produce  a  great  thought,  another  is  born  who  is 
able  to  understand  and  admire  it.  —  Joubert. 

No  story  is  the  same  to  us  after  a  lapse  of  time ; 
or  rather  we  who  read  it  are  no  longer  the  same  in- 
terpreters. —  George  Eliot. 

Next  to  invention  is  the  power  of  interpreting  in- 
vention ;  next  to  beauty  the  power  of  appreciating 
beauty.  —  Margaret  Fuller. 

You  will  find  poetry  nowhere  unless  you  bring 
some  with  you.  — Joubert. 

Architecture.  —  Architecture  is  the  art  which 

so  disposes  and  adorns  the  edifices  raised  by  man, 
for  whatsoever  uses,  that  the  sight  of  them  may  con- 
tribute to  his  mental  health,  power,  and  pleasure. 

—  Ruskin. 

Argument.  —  There  is  no  arguing  with  John- 
son; for  if  his  pistol  misses  fire  he  knocks  you  down 
with  the  butt  end  of  it.  —  Goldsmith. 

Weak  arguments  are  often  thrust  before  my  path; 
but  although  they  are  most  unsubstantial,  it  is  not 
easy  to  destroy  them.  There  is  not  a  more  difficult 
feat  known  than  to  cut  through  a  cushion  with  a 
sword.  —  Bishop  Whately. 

Treating  your  adversary  with  respect  is  giving  him 
an  advantage  to  which  he  is  not  entitled.  The  great- 
est part  of  men  cannot  judge  of  reasoning,  and  are 
impressed  by  character  ;  so  that  if  you  allow  your 
adversary  a  respectable  character,  they  will  think 
that,  though  you  differ  from  him,  you  may  be  in  the 
wrong.  Treating  your  adversary  with  respect  is 
striking  soft  in  a  battle.  —  Johnson. 

The  soundest  argument  will  produce  no  more  con- 
viction in  an  empty  head  than  the  most  superficial 
declamation  ;  as  a  feather  and  a  guinea  fail  with 
equal  velocity  in  a  vacuum.  —  Cotton. 
2 


ARG  '  18  ARI 

An  ill  argument  introduced  with  deference  will 
procure  more  credit  than  the  profoundest  science 
with  a  rough,  insolent,  and  noisy  management. — 
Locke. 

One  may  say,  generally,  that  no  deeply  rooted 
tendency  was  ever  extirpated  by  adverse  argument. 
Not  having  originally  been  founded  on  argument,  it 
cannot  be  destroyed  by  logic.  —  G.  H.  Lewes. 

A  reason  is  often  good,  not  because  it  is  conclu- 
sive, but  because  it  is  dramatic,  — because  it  has  the 
stamp  of  him  who  urges  it,  and  is  drawn  from  his 
own  resources.  For  there  are  arguments  ex  homine 
as  well  as  ad  hominem.  —  Jouhert. 

If  I  were  to  deliver  up  my  whole  self  to  the  arbit- 
rament of  special  pleaders,  to-day  I  might  be  ar- 
gued into  an  atheist,  and  to-morrow  into  a  pick- 
pocket. —  Bulwer-Lytton, 

Aristocracy.  —  And  lords,  whose  parents  were 
the  Lord  knows  who.  —  De  Foe. 

What  can  they  see  in  the  longest  kingly  line  in 
Europe,  save  that  it  runs  back  to  a  successful  sol- 
dier ?— Tl^a/ter  Scott. 

If  in  an  aristocracy  the  people  be  virtuous,  they 
will  enjoy  very  nearly  the  same  happiness  as  in  a 
popular  government,  and  the  state  will  become  pow- 
erful. —  Montesquieu. 

An  aristocracy  is  the  true,  the  only  support  of  a 
monarchy.  Without  it  the  State  is  a  vessel  without 
a  rudder — a  balloon  in  the  air.  A  true  aristocracy, 
however,  must  be  ancient.  Therein  consists  its  real 
force,  —  its  talismanic  charm.  —  Napoleon. 

I  never  could  believe  that  Providence  had  sent  a 
few  men  into  the  world,  ready  booted  and  spurred 
to  ride,  and  milUons  ready  saddled  and  bridled  to 
be  ridden.  —  Richard  Rumbold. 


ARM  19  ART 

Armor.  —  The  best  armor  is  to  keep  out  of  gun- 
shot. —  Lord  Bacon. 

Our  armor  all  is  strong,  our  cause  the  best ;  then 
reason  wills  our  hearts  should  be  as  good.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Art.  —  Rules  may  teach  us  not  to  raise  the  arms 
above  the  head;  but  if  passion  carries  them,  it  will 
be  well  done  :  passion  knows  more  than  art.  —  Baron. 

It  is  a  great  mortification  to  the  vanity  of  man 
that  his  utmost  art  and  industry  can  never  equal 
the  meanest  of  nature's  productions,  either  for 
beauty  or  value.  Art  is  only  the  underworkman, 
and  is  employed  to  give  a  few  strokes  of  embellish- 
ment to  those  pieces  which  come  from  the  hand  of 
the  master.  —  Hume. 

The  mission  of  art  is  to  represent  nature;  not  to 
imitate  her.  —  W.  M.  Hunt. 

True  art  is  not  the  caprice  of  this  or  that  in- 
dividual, it  is  a  solemn  page  either  of  history  or 
prophecy;  and  when,  as  always  in  Dante  and  occa- 
sionally in  Byron,  it  combines  and  harmonizes  this 
double  mission,  it  reaches  the  highest  summit  of 
power.  —  Mazzini. 

Art  is  the  right  hand  of  Nature.  The  latter  has 
only  given  us  being,  the  former  has  made  us  men. — 
Schiller. 

Art  does  not  imitate  nature,  but  it  founds  itself  on 
the  study  of  nature — takes  from  nature  the  selec- 
tions which  best  accord  with  its  own  intention,  and 
then  bestows  on  them  that  which  nature  does  not 
possess,  namely,  the  mind  and  the  soul  of  man.  — 
Bulwer-Lylton. 

The  mother  of  useful  arts  is  necessity ;  that  of  the 
fine  arts  is  luxury.  —  Schopenliaufer. 

He  who  seeks  popularity  in  art  closes  the  door  on 
his  own  genius,  as  he  must  needs  paint  for  other 
minds  and  not  for  his  own.  —  Washington  Allston. 


ART  20  ASC 

In  art,  form  is  everything;  matter,  nothing.  — 
Heinrich  Heine. 

Strange  thing  art,  especially  music.  Out  of  an 
art  a  man  may  be  so  trivial  you  would  mistake  him 
for  an  imbecile,  at  best  a  grown  infant.  Put  him  into 
his  art,  and  how  high  he  soars  above  you  !  How 
quietly  he  enters  into  a  heaven  of  which  he  has  be- 
come a  denizen,  and,  unlocking  the  gates  with  his 
golden  key,  admits  you  to  follow,  an  humble,  rev- 
erent visitor.  —  Balioer-Lytton. 

Art  does  not  imitate,  but  interpret.  —  Mazzini. 

The  artist  is  the  child  in  the  popular  fable,  every 
one  of  whose  tears  was  a  pearl.  Ah!  the  world,  that 
cruel  step-mother,  beats  the  poor  child  the  harder  to 
make  him  shed  more  pearls.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

In  art  there  is  a  point  of  perfection,  as  of  good- 
ness or  maturity  in  nature  ;  he  who  is  able  to  per- 
ceive it,  and  who  loves  it,  has  perfect  taste  ;  he  who 
does  not  feel  it,  or  loves  on  this  side  or  that,  has 
an  imperfect  taste.  —  Bruyere. 

Never  judge  a  work  of  art  by  its  defects.  — Wash- 
ington AUston. 

Asceticism. — I  recommend  no  sour  ascetic 
life.  I  believe  not  only  in  the  thorns  on  the  rose- 
bush, but  in  the  roses  which  the  thorns  defend.  As- 
ceticism is  the  child  of  sensuality  and  superstition. 
She  is  the  secret  mother  of  many  a  secret  sin.  God, 
when  he  made  man's  body,  did  not  give  us  a  fibre 
too  much,  nor  a  passion  too  many.  I  would  steal 
no  violet  from  the  young  maiden's  bosom  ;  rather 
would  I  fill  her  arms  with  more  fragrant  roses.  But 
a  life  merely  of  pleasure,  or  chiefly  of  -pleasure,  is 
always  a  poor  and  worthless  life,  not  worth  the  liv- 
ing ',  always  unsatisfactory  in  its  course,  always  mis- 
erable in  its  end.  —  Theodore  Parker. 

In  hope  to  merit  heaven  by  making  earth  a  helL 
—  Byron. 


ASC  21  ASP 

Three  forms  of  asceticism  have  existed  in  this 
weak  world,  lleligious  asceticism,  being  the  refusal 
of  pleasure  and  knowledge  for  the  sake  —  as  sup- 
posed —  of  religion  ;  seen  chiefly  in  the  Middle  Ages. 
Military  asceticism,  being  the  refusal  of  pleasure  and 
knowledge  for  the  sake  of  power ;  seen  chiefly  in  the 
early  days  of  Sparta  and  Rome.  And  monetary  as- 
ceticism, consisting  in  the  i;tifusal  of  pleasure  and 
knowledge  for  the  sake  of  money;  seen  in  the  pres- 
ent days  of  London  and  Manchester.  —  Ruskin. 

Aspiration.  —  The  negro  king  desired  to  be 
portrayed  as  white.  But  do  not  laugh  at  the  poor 
African  ;  for  every  man  is  but  another  negro  king, 
and  would  like  to  appear  in  a  color  different  from 
that  with  which  Fate  has  bedaubed  him.  —  Heinrich 
Heine, 

There  is  no  sorrow  I  have  thought  more  about 
than  that — to  love  what  is  great,  and  try  to  reach 
it,  and  yet  to  fail.  —  George  Eliot. 

The  heart  is  a  small  thing,  but  desireth  great  mat- 
ters. It  is  not  sufficient  for  a  kite's  dinner,  yet  the 
whole  world  is  not  sufficient  for  it.  —  Quarles. 

There  must  be  something  beyond  man  in  this 
world.  Even  on  attaining  to  his  highest  possibili- 
ties, he  is  like  a  bird  beating  against  his  cage.  There 
is  something  beyond,  O  deathless  soul,  like  a  sea- 
shell,  moaning  for  the  bosom  of  the  ocean  to  which 
you  belong  1  —  Chapin. 

Oh  for  a  muse  of  fire,  that  would  ascend  the 
brightest  heaven  of  invention  !  A  kingdom  for  a 
stage,  princes  to  act,  and  monarchs  to  behold  the 
swelling  scene.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  heavens  are  as  deep  as  our  aspirations  are 
high.  —  Thoreau. 

It  seems  to  me  we  can  never  give  up  longing  and 
wishing  while  we  are  thoroughly  alive.  There  are 
certain  things  we  feel  to  be  beautiful  and  good,  and 
we  must  hunger  after  them.  —  George  Eliot. 


ASS  22  AUT 

Associates.  —  Costly  followers  are  not  to  be 
liked  ;  lest  while  a  man  maketh  his  train  longer,  he 
makes  his  wings  shorter.  — Bacon. 

Be  very  circumspect  in  the  choice  of  thy  company. 
In  the  society  of  thine  equals  thou  shalt  enjoy  more 
pleasure ;  in  the  society  of  thy  superiors  thou  shalt 
find  more  profit.  To  be  the  best  in  the  company  is 
the  way  to  grow  worse;  the  best  means  to  grow  bet- 
ter is  to  be  the  worst  there.  —  Quarles. 

A  man  should  live  with  his  superiors  as  he  does 
with  his  fire:  not  too  near,  lest  he  burn ;  nor  too  far 
off,  lest  he  freeze.  —  Diogenes. 

As  there  are  some  flowers  which  you  should  smell 
but  slightly  to  extract  all  that  is  pleasant  in  them, 
and  which,  if  you  do  otherwise,  emit  what  is  un- 
pleasant and  noxious,  so  there  are  some  nien  with 
whom  a  slight  acquaintance  is  quite  sufficient  to 
draw  out  all  that  is  agreeable;  a  more  intimate  one 
would  be  unsatisfactory  and  unsafe.  —  Landor. 

Those  who  are  unacquainted  with  the  world  take 
pleasure  in  the  intimacy  of  great  men;  those  who 
are  wiser  dread  the  consequences.  —  Horace. 

Atheism.  —  By  burning  an  atheist,  you  have 
lent  importance  to  that  which  was  absurd,  interest 
to  that  which  was  forbidding,  light  to  that  which  was 
the  essence  of  darkness.  For  atheism  is  a  system 
which  can  communicate  neither  warmth  nor  illumi- 
nation except  from  those  fagots  which  your  mistaken 
zeal  has  lighted  up  for  its  destruction.  —  Colton. 

One  of  the  most  daring  beings  in  creation,  a  con- 
temner of  God,  who  explodes  his  laws  by  denying 
his  existence.  —  John  Foster. 

Authority.  —  Reasons  of  things  are  rather  to 
be  taken  by  weight  than  tale.  —  Jeremy  Collier. 

The  world  is  ruled  by 'the  subordinates,  not  by 
their  chiefs.  —  Charles  Buxton. 


AUT  23  ^  AUT 

Authors . —  Authors  may  be  divided  into  falling 
stai's,  planets,  and  tixed  stars :  the  first  have  a  mo- 
mentary effect.  The  second  have  a  much  longer 
duration.  But  the  third  are  unchangeable,  possess 
their  own  light,  and  work  for  all  time.  —  Schopen- 
haufer. 

Satire  lies  about  men  of  letters  during  their  lives, 
and  eulogy  after  their  death.  —  Voltaire. 

It  is  commonly  the  personal  character  of  a  writer 
which  gives  him  his  public  significance.  It  is  not 
imparted  by  his  genius.  Napoleon  said  of  Corneille, 
"  Were  he  living  I  would  make  him  a  king;  "  but 
he  did  not  read  him.  He  read  Racine,  yet  he  said 
nothing  of  the  kind  of  Racine.  It  is  for  the  same 
reason  that  La  Fontaine  is  held  in  such  high  esteem 
among  the  French.  It  is  not  for  his  worth  as  a  poet, 
but  for  the  greatness  of  his  character  which  obtrudes 
in  his  writings.  —  Goethe. 

Choose  an  author  as  you  choose  a  friend.  —  Ros- 
common. 

Herder  and  Schiller  both  in  their  youth  intended 
to  study  as  surgeons,  but  Destiny  said  :  "  No,  there 
are  deeper  wounds  than  those  of  the  body,  —  heal 
the  deeper!  "  and  they  wrote.  — Richter. 

A  woman  who  writes  commits  two  sins  :  she  in- 
creases the  number  of  books,  and  decreases  the  num- 
ber of  women.  —  A  Iphonse  Karr. 

Thanks  and  honor  to  the  glorious  masters  of  the 
pen.  — Hood. 

The  society  of  dead  authors  has  this  advantage 
over  that  of  the  living  :  they  never  flatter  us  to  our 
faces,  nor  slander  us  behind  our  backs,  nor  intrude 
upon  our  privacy,  nor  quit  their  shelves  until  we  take 
them  down.  —  Colton. 

Clear  writers,  like  clear  fountains,  do  not  seem 
so  deep  as  they  are,  the  turbid  looks  most  profound. 
—  Landor. 


AUT  24  BAB 

When  we  look  back  upon  human  records,  how  the 
eye  settles  upon  writers  as  the  main  landmarks  of 
the  past.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Autumn. —  Season  of  mist  and  mellow  fruitful- 
ness.  —  Keats. 

The  Sabbath  of  the  year.  —  Logan. 

Avarice.  —  Though  avarice  will  preserve  a 
man  from  being  necessitously  poor,  it  generally  makes 
him  too  timorous  to  be  wealthy.  —  Thomas  Paine. 

Avarice  is  more  unlovely  than  mischievous. — 
Landor. 

The  German  poet  observes  that  the  Cow  of  Isis 
is  to  some  the  divine  symbol  of  knowledge,  to  others 
but  the  milch  cow,  only  regarded  for  the  pounds  of 
butter  she  will  yield.  O  tendency  of  our  age,  to  look 
on  Isis  as  the  milch  cow  !  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Worse  poison  to  men's  souls,  doing  more  murders 
in  this  loathsome  world  than  any  mortal  drug. — 
Shakespeare. 

Avarice  is  generally  the  last  passion  of  those  lives 
of  which  the  first  part  has  been  squandered  in  pleas- 
ure, and  the  second  devoted  to  ambition.  He  that 
sinks  under  the  fatigue  of  getting  wealth,  lulls  his 
age  with  the  milder  business  of  saving  it.  —  John- 
son. 

B. 

Babblers.  —  Who  think  too  little,  and  who 
talk  too  much.  —  Dry  den. 

They  always  talk  who  never  think.  — Prior. 

Talkers  are  no  good  doers.  —  Shakespeare. 

Babe.  —  It  is  curious  to  see  how  a  self-willed, 
haughty  girl,  who  sets  her  father  and  mother  and 
all  at  defiance,  and  can't  be  managed  by  anybody, 
at  once  finds  her  master  in  a  baby.  Her  sister's 
child  will  strike  the  rock  and  set  all  her  affections 
flowinjj.  —  Charles  Buxton. 


BAR  25  BEA 

B  a  r  g  a  i  n . — What  is  the  disposition  which  makes 
men  rejoice  in  good  bargains?  There  are  few  peo- 
ple who  will  not  be  benefited  by  pondering  over  the 
morals  of  shopping.  —  Beecher. 

A  dear  bargain  is  always  disagreeable,  particularly 
as  it  is  a  reflection  upon  the  buyer's  judgment.  — 
Pliny. 

Bash  fulness.  —  Bashf  ulness  may  sometimes 
exclude  pleasure,  but  seldom  opens  any  avenue  to 
sorrow  or  remorse.  —  Johnson. 

Bashf  ulness  is  a  great  hindrance  to  a  man,  both  in 
uttering  his  sentiments  and  in  understanding  what  is 
proposed  to  him;  't  is  therefore  good  to  press  forward 
with  discretion,  both  in  discourse  and  company  of 
the  better  sort.  —  Bacon. 

Beauty.  —  The  beautiful  is  always  severe. — 
Segur. 

For  converse  among  men,  beautiful  persons  have 
less  need  of  the  mind's  commending  qualities. 
Beauty  in  itself  is  such  a  silent  orator,  that  it  is 
ever  pleading  for  respect  and  liking,  and,  by  the 
eyes  of  others  is  ever  sending  to  their  hearts  for 
love.  Yet  even  this  hath  this  inconvenience  in  it  — 
that  it  makes  its  possessor  neglect  the  furnishing  of 
the  mind  with  nobleness.  Nay,  it  oftentimes  is  a 
cause  that  the  mind  is  ill.  —  Feltham. 

Man  has  still  more  desire  for  beauty  than  knowl- 
edge of  it ;  hence  the  caprices  of  the  world.  —  X. 
Dondan. 

No  better  cosmetics  than  a  severe  temperance  and 
purity,  modesty  and  humility,  a  gracious  temper  and 
calmness  of  spirit;  no  true  beauty  without  the  sig- 
nature of  these  graces  in  the  very  countenance.  — 
John  Ray. 

An  appearance  of  delicacy,  and  even  of  fragility, 
is  almost  essential  to  beauty.  —  Burke. 


BEA  26  BEA 

I  am  of  opinion  that  there  is  nothing  so  beautiful 
but  that  there  is  something  still  more  beautiful,  of 
which  this  is  the  mere  image  and  expression,  —  a 
something  which  can  neither  be  perceived  by  the 
eyes,  the  ears,  nor  any  of  the  senses;  we  compre- 
hend it  merely  in  the  imagination.  —  Cicero. 

A  lovely  girl  is  above  all  rank.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

There  is  more  or  less  of  pathos  in  all  true  beauty. 
The  delight  it  awakens  has  an  indefinable,  and,  as  it 
were,  luxurious  sadness,  which  is  perhaps  one  ele- 
ment of  its  might.  —  Tuckerman. 

Beauty  is  the  first  present  nature  gives  to  women 
and  the  first  it  takes  away.  —  Mere. 

In  ourselves,  rather  than  in  material  nature,  lie 
the  true  source  and  life  of  the  beautiful.  The  human 
soul  is  the  sun  which  diffuses  light  on  every  side,  in- 
vesting creation  with  its  lovely  hues,  and  calling 
forth  the  poetic  element  that  lies  hidden  in  every 
existing  thing.  —  Mazzini. 

Beauty  is  God's  handwriting,  a  wayside  sacra- 
ment. —  Milton. 

Beauty  deceives  women  in  making  them  establish 
on  an  ephemeral  power  the  pretensions  of  a  whole 
life.  —  Bignicout. 

If  there  is  a  fruit  that  can  be  eaten  raw,  it  is 
beauty.  —  Alphonse  Karr. 

Those  critics  who,  in  modern  times,  have  the  most 
thoughtfully  analyzed  the  laws  of  aesthetic  beauty, 
concur  in  maintaining  that  the  real  truthfulness  of 
all  works  of  imagination  —  sculpture,  painting,  writ- 
ten fiction  —  is  so  purely  in  the  imagination,  that  the 
artist  never  seeks  to  represent  the  positive  truth,  but 
the  idealized  image  of  a  truth.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

An  outward  gift  which  is  seldom  despised,  except 
by  those  to  whom  it  has  been  refused.  —  Gibbon. 


BEA  27  BEN 

It  is  impossible  that  beauty  should  ever  distinctly 
apprehend  itself.  —  Goethe. 

Bed.  —  The  bed  is  a  bundle  of  paradoxes  :  we 
go  to  it  with  reluctance,  yet  we  quit  it  with  regret ; 
we  make  up  our  minds  every  night  to  leave  it  early, 
but  we  make  up  our  bodies  every  morning  to  keep  it 
late.  —  Colton. 

What  a  delightful  thing  rest  is!  The  bed  has 
become  a  place  of  luxury  to  me!  I  would  not  ex- 
change it  for  all  the  thrones  in  the  world.  —  Napo- 
leon. 

Beggars.  —  He  is  never  out  of  the  fashion,  or 
limpeth  awkwardly  behind  it.  He  is  not  required  to 
put  on  court  mourning.  He  weareth  all  colors,  fear- 
ing none.  His  costume  hath  undergone  less  change 
than  the  Quaker's.  He  is  the  only  man  in  the  uni- 
verse who  is  not  obliged  to  study  appearances.  — 
Lamb. 

Aspiring  beggary  is  wretchedness  itself. —  Gold- 
smith. 

Benevolence.  —  There  cannot  be  a  more 
glorious  object  in  creation  than  a  human  being,  re- 
plete with  benevolence,  meditating  in  what  manner 
he  might  render  himself  most  acceptable  to  his  Crea- 
tor by  doing  most  good  to  his  creatures.  —  Fielding. 

Genuine  benevolence  is  not  stationary  but  peripa- 
tetic.    It  goeth  about  doing  good.  — Nevins. 

It  is  an  argument  of  a  candid,  ingenuous  mind  to 
delight  in  the  good  name  and  commendations  of 
others;  to  pass  by  their  defects  and  take  notice  of 
their  virtues;  and  to  speak  or  hear  willingly  of  the 
latter;  for  in  this  indeed  you  may  be  little  less  guilty 
than  the  evil  speaker,  in  taking  pleasure  in  evil, 
though  you  speak  it  not.  —  Leighton. 

The  root  of  all  benevolent  actions  is  filial  piety 
and  fraternal  love. —  Confucius, 


BEN  28  BIB 

True  benevolence  is  to  love  all  men.  Recompense 
injury  with  justice,  and  kindness  with  kindness. — 
Confucius. 

It  is  in  contemplatinor  man  at  a  distance  that  we 
become  benevolent.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Bible.  —  As  those  wines  which  flow  from  the 
first  treading  of  the  (grapes  are  sweeter  and  better 
than  those  forced  out  by  the  press,  which  gives  them 
the  roughness  of  the  husk  and  the  stone,  so  are  those 
doctrines  best  and  sweetest  which  flow  from  a  gentle 
crush  of  the  Scriptures  and  are  not  wrung  into  con- 
troversies and  commonplaces.  —  Bacon. 

They  who  are  not  induced  to  believe  and  live  as 
they  ought  by  those  discoveries  which  God  hath 
made  in  Scripture,  would  stand  out  against  any  evi- 
dence whatever;  even  that  of  a  messenger  sent  ex- 
press from  the  other  world.  —  Atlerhury. 

But  what  is  meant,  after  all,  by  uneducated,  in  a 
time  when  books  have  come  into  the  world  —  come 
to  be  household  furniture  in  every  habitation  of  the 
civilized  world?  In  the  poorest  cottage  are  books 
—  is  one  book,  wherein  for  several  thousands  of 
years  the  spirit  of  man  has  found  light  and  nourish- 
ment and  an  interpreting  response  to  whatever  is 
deepest  in  him.  —  Carlyle. 

A  stream  where  alike  the  elephant  may  swim  and 
the  Iamb  may  wade.  —  Gregory  the  Great. 

All  human  discoveries  seem  to  be  made  only  for 
the  purpose  of  confirming  more  strongly  the  truths 
come  from  on  high,  and  contained  in  the  sacred 
writings.  —  Herschel. 

I  am  heartily  glad  to  witness  your  veneration  for 
a  book  which,  to  say  nothing  of  its  holiness  or  au- 
thority, contains  more  specimens  of  genius  and  taste 
than  any  other  volume  in  existence.  —  Landor. 


BIG  29  BIO 

Bigotry. —  A  proud  bigot,  who  is  vain  enough 
to  think  that  he  can  deceive  even  God  by  affected 
zeal,  and  throwing  the  veil  of  holiness  over  vices, 
damns  all  mankind  by  the  word  of  his  power. — 
Boileau. 

Persecuting  bigots  may  be  compared  to  those  burn- 
iiig  lenses  which  Lenhenhoeck  and  others  composed 
from  ice;  by  their  chilling  apathy  they  freeze  the 
suppliant;  by  their  fiery  zeal  they  burn  the  sufferer. 

—  Colton. 

A  man  must  be  excessively  stupid,  as  well  as  un- 
charitable, who  believes  there  is  no  virtue  but  on  his 
own  side.  —  Addison. 

The  worst  of  mad  men  is  a  saint  run  mad.  —  Pope. 

Biography.  —  As  in  the  case  of  painters,  who 
have  undertaken  to  give  us  a  beautiful  and  graceful 
figure,  which  may  have  some  slight  blemishes,  we  do 
not  wish  them  to  pass  over  such  blemishes  altogether, 
nor  yet  to  mark  them  too  prominently.  The  one 
would  spoil  the  beauty,  and  the  other  destroy  the 
likeness  of  the  picture.  —  Plutarch. 

Biographies  of  great,  but  especially  of  good  men, 
are  most  instructive  and  useful  as  helps,  guides,  and 
incentives  to  others.  Some  of  the  best  are  almost 
equivalent  to  gospels  —  teaching  high  living,  high 
thinking,  and  energetic  action  for  their  own  and  the 
world's  good.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

It  is  rarely  well  executed.  They  only  who  live 
with  a  man  can  write  his  life  with  any  genuine  exact- 
ness and  discrimination;  and  few  people,  who  have 
lived  with  a  man,  know  what  to  remark  about  him. 

—  Johnson. 

History  can  be  formed  from  permanent  monu- 
ments and  records  ;  but  lives  can  only  be  written 
from  personal  knowledge,  which  is  growing  every 
day  less,  and  in  a  short  time  is  lost  forever.  — 
Johnson, 


BIO  30  BLU 

Occasionally  a  single  anecdote  opens  a  character; 
biography  has  its  comparative  anatomy,  and  a  say- 
ing or  a  sentiment  enables  the  skillful  hand  to  con- 
struct the  skeleton.  — Willmott. 

To  be  ignorant  of  the  lives  of  the  most  celebrated 
men  of  antiquity  is  to  continue  in  a  state  of  child- 
hood all  our  days.  —  Plutarch. 

Birth.  —  Noble  in  appearance,  but  this  is  mere 
outside ;  many  noble  born  are  base.  —  Euripides. 

Blessings.  —  The  good  things  of  life  are  not 
to  be  had  singly,  but  come  to  us  veith  a  mixture;  like 
a  schoolboy's  holiday,  with  a  task  affixed  to  the  tail 
of  it.  —  Charles  Lamb. 

Blessedness  consists  in  the  accomplishment  of  our 
desires,  and  in  our  having  only  regular  desires. — 
St.  Augustine. 

We  mistake  the  gratuitous  blessings  of  Heaven 
for  the  fruits  of  our  own  industry.  —  U Estrange. 

Health,  beauty,  vigor^  riches,  and  all  the  other 
things  called  goods,  operate  equally  as  evils  to  the 
vicious  and  unjust  as  they  do  as  benefits  to  the  just. 

—  Plato. 

How  blessings  brighten  as  they  take  their  flight ! 

—  Young. 

Reflect  upon  your  present  blcFsings,  of  which 
every  man  has  many:  not  on  your  past  misfortunes, 
of  which  all  men  have  some.  —  Charles  Dickens. 

Blush.  —  The  ambiguous  livery  worn  alike  by 
modesty  and  shame.  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

I  have  mark'd  a  thousand  blushing  apparitions  to 
start  into  her  face;  a  thousand  innocent  shames,  in 
angel  whiteness ,  bear  away  those  blushes.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

The  glow  of  the  angel  in  woman.  —  Mrs.  Balfour, 


BLU  31  BON 

Such  blushes  as  adorn  the  ruddy  welkin  or  the 
purple  morn.  —  Ovid. 

Luminous  escapes  of  thought.  —  Moore. 

Blustering.  —  Because  half  a  dozen  grasshop- 
pers under  a  fern  make  the  field  ring  with  their  im- 
portunate chink,  whilst  thousands  of  great  cattle, 
reposing  beneath  the  shadow  of  the  British  oak,  chew 
the  cud  and  are  silent,  pray  do  not  imagine  that  those 
who  make  the  noise  are  the  only  inhabitants  of  the 
field  —  that,  of  course,  they  are  many  in  number, 

—  or,  that,  after  all,  they  are  other  than  the  little, 
shriveled,  meagre,  hopping,  though  loud  and  troub- 
lesome, insects  of  the  hour. — Burke. 

There  are  braying  men  in  the  world  as  well  as 
braying  asses;  for  what  is  loud  and  senseless  talking 
any  other  than  a  way  of  braying.  —  U Estrange. 

Wine  and  the  sun  will  make  vinegar  without  any 
shouting  to  help  them.  —  George  Eliot. 

Boasting.  —  Usually  the  greatest  boasters  are 
the  smallest  workers.  The  deep  rivers  pay  a  larger 
tribute  to  the  sea  than  shallow  brooks,  and  yet  empty 
themselves  with  less  noise. — W.  Seeker. 

With  all  his  tumid  boasts,  he  's  like  the  sword-fish, 
who  only  wears  his  weapon  in  his  mouth.  —  Madden. 

Every  braggart  shall  be  found  an  ass.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Self-laudation  abounds  among  the  unpolished,  but 
nothing  can  stamp  a  man  more  sharply  as  ill-bred. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 

Boldness.  —  Who  bravely  dares  must  some- 
times risk  a  fall.  —  Smollett. 

Women  like  brave  men  exceedingly,  but  audaci- 
ous men  still  more.  —  Lemesles. 

Bondage.  —  The  iron  chain  and  the  silken 
cord,  both  equally  are  bonds.  —  Schiller. 


BOO  32  BOO 

Books.  —  If  a  secret  history  of  books  could  be 
written,  and  the  author's  private  thoughts  and 
meanings  noted  down  alongside  of  his  story,  how 
many  insipid  volumes  would  become  interesting,  and 
dull  tales  excite  the  reader!  —  Thackeray. 

When  a  new  book  comes  out  I  read  an  old  one. 

—  Rogers. 

Be  as  careful  of  the  books  you  read  as  of  the  com- 
pany you  keep;  for  your  habits  and  character  will 
be  as  much  influenced  by  the  former  as  the  latter. 

—  Paxton  Hood. 

Homeliness  is  almost  as  great  a  merit  in  a  book  as 
in  a  house,  if  the  reader  would  abide  there.  It  is 
next  to  beauty,  and  a  very  high  art.  —  Thoreau. 

A  book  is  good  company.  It  is  full  of  conversa- 
tion without  loquacity.  It  comes  to  your  longing 
with  full  instruction,  but  pursues  you  never.  It  is 
not  offended  at  your  absent-mindedness,  nor  jealous 
if  you  turn  to  other  pleasures.  It  silently  serves  the 
soul  without  recompense,  not  even  for  the  hire  of 
love.  And  yet  more  noble,  —  it  seems  to  pass  from 
itself,  and  to  enter  the  memory,  and  to  hover  in  a 
silvery  transfiguration  there,  until  the  outward  book 
is  but  a  body,  and  its  soul  and  spirit  are  flown  to 
you,  and  possess  your  memory  like  a  spirit. — Beecher. 

If  the  crowns  of  all  the  kingdoms  of  Europe  were 
laid  down  at  my  feet  in  exchange  for  my  books  and 
my  love  of  reading,  I  would  spurn  them  a\L  —  Fene- 
lon. 

We  ought  to  regard  books  as  we  do  sweetmeats, 
not  wholly  to  aim  at  the  pleasantest,  but  chiefly  to 
respect  the  wholesomest;  not  forbidding  either,  but 
approving  the  latter  most.  —  Plutarch. 

To  buy  books  only  because  they  were  published 
by  an  eminent  printer,  is  much  as  if  a  man  should 
buy  clothes  that  did  not  fit  him,  only  because  made 
by  some  famous  tailor.  —  Pope. 


BOO  83  BRA 

The  medicine  of  the  mind.  —  Diodorus. 

Let  every  man,  if  possible,  gather  some  good 
books  under  his  roof.  —  Channing. 

Wise  books  for  half  the  truths  they  hold  are  hon- 
ored tombs. —  George  Eliot. 

Bores.  —  I  am  constitutionally  susceptible  of 
noises.  A  carpenter's  hammer,  in  a  warm  summer's 
noon,  will  fret  me  into  more  than  midsummer  mad- 
ness. But  those  unconnected,  unset  sounds  are 
nothing  to  the  measured  malice  of  music.  —  Lamb. 

These,  wanting  wit,  affect  gravity,  and  go  by  the 
name  of  solid  men.  —  Dryden. 

If  we  engage  into  a  large  acquaintance  and  vari- 
ous familiarities,  we  set  open  our  gates  to  the  in- 
vaders of  most  of  our  time ;  we  expose  our  life  to  a 
quotidian  ague  of  frigid  impertinences  which  would 
make  a  wise  man  tremble  to  think  of.  —  Cowley. 

The  symptoms  of  compassion  and  benevolence,  in 
some  people,  are  like  those  minute  guns  which  warn 
you  that  you  are  in  deadly  peril !  —  Madame  Swetch- 
ine. 

Borrowing.  —  You  should  only  attempt  to 
borrow  from  those  who  have  but  few  of  this  world's 
goods,  as  their  chests  are  not  of  iron,  and  they  are, 
besides,  anxious  to  appear  wealthier  than  they  really 
are.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

According  to  the  security  you  offer  to  her,  Fort- 
une makes  her  loans  easy  or  ruinous.  —  Bulwer-Lyt- 
ton. 

Bravery.  —  True  bravery  is  shown  by  perform- 
ing without  witnesses  what  one  might  be  capable  of 
doing  before  all  the  world.  —  Rochefoucauld. 

'T  is  late  before  the  brave  despair.  —  Thompson. 

The  bravest  men  are  subject  most  to  chance. — 
Dryden, 

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BRA  34  BUS 

The  truly  brave  are  soft  of  heart  and  eyes.  — 
Byron. 

People  glorify  all  sorts  of  bravery  except  the 
bravery  they  might  show  on  behalf  of  their  nearest 
neighbors.  —  George  Eliot, 

Brevity.  —  To  make  pleasures  pleasant  shorten 
them.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Was  there  ever  anything  written  by  mere  man 
that  was  wished  longer  by  its  readers,  excepting 
Don  Quixote,  Robinson  Crusoe,  and  the  Pilgrim's 
Progress  ?  —  Johnson. 

A  sentence  well  couched  takes  both  the  sense  and 
understanding.  I  love  not  those  cart-rope  speeches 
that  are  longer  than  the  memory  of  man  can  fathom. 

—  Feltham. 

I  saw  one  excellency  was  within  my  reach  —  it 
was  brevity,  and  I  determined  to  obtain  it.  —  Jay. 

'•    Be  brief;  for  it  is  with  words  as  with  sunbeams  — 
the  more  they  are  condensed,  the  deeper  they  burn. 

—  S  out  hey. 

Concentration  alone  conquers.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

The  more  an  idea  is  developed,  the  more  concise 
becomes  its  expression  :  the  more  a  tree  is  pruned, 
the  better  is  the  fruit.  —  Alfred  Bougeart. 

Oratory,  like  the  Drama,  abhors  lengthiness;  like 
the  Drama,  it  must  be  kept  doing.  It  avoids,  as 
frigid,  prolonged  metaphysical  soliloquy.  Beauties 
themselves,  if  they  delay  or  distract  the  eifect  which 
should  be  produced  on  the  audience,  become  blem- 
ishes. —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

The  fewer  words  the  better  prayer.  —  Luther. 

Business.  —  Not  because  of  any  extraordinary 
talents  did  he  succeed,  but  because  he  had  a  capacity 
on  a  level  for  business  and  not  above  it.  —  Tacitus. 


CAL  35  CHA 


C. 

Calumny.  —  Neglected  calumny  soon  expires ; 
show  that  you  are  hurt,  and  you  give  it  the  appear- 
ance of  truth.  —  Tacitus. 

Calumny  crosses  oceans,  scales  mountains,  and 
traverses  deserts  with  greater  ease  than  the  Scyth- 
ian Abaris,  and,  like  him,  rides  upon  a  poisoned 
arrow.  —  Colton. 

Cant.  —  The  affectation  of  some  late  authors  to 
introduce  and  multiply  cant  words  is  the  most  ruin- 
ous corruption  in  any  language.  —  Swift. 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  a  peculiar  word  or  phrase 
cleaving,  as  it  wei-e,  to  the  memory  of  the  writer  or 
speaker,  and  presenting  itself  to  his  utterance  at 
every  turn.  When  we  observe  this,  we  call  it  a 
cant  word  or  a  cant  phrase.  —  Paley. 

Caution  .  — Whenever  our  neighbor's  house  is 
on  fire,  it  cannot  be  amiss  for  the  engines  to  play  a 
little  on  our  own.  Better  to  be  despised  for  too  anx- 
ious apprehensions,  than  ruined  by  too  confident  a 
security.  —  Burke. 

Censure.  —  Censure  pardons  the  ravens,  but 
rebukes  the  doves.  — Juvenal. 

We  do  not  like  our  friends  the  worse  because 
they  sometimes  give  us  an  opportunity  ♦to  rail  at 
them  heartily.  Their  faults  reconcile  us  to  their 
virtues.  —  Hazlitt. 

Censure  is  like  the  lightning  which  strikes  the 
highest  mountains.  —  Balthasar  Gracian. 

Chance.  —  There  must  be  chance  in  the  midst 
of  design  ;  by  which  we  mean  that  events  which 
are  not  desicrned  necessarily  arise  from  the  pursuit 
of  events  which  are  designed. — Paley. 

Chance  generally  favors'  the  prudent.  —  Jouhert. 


CHA  36  CHA 

It  is  strictly  and  philosophically  true  in  nature 
and  reason  that  there  is  no  such  thing  as  chance  or 
accident;  it  being  evident  that  these  words  do  not 
signify  anything  really  existing,  anything  that  is 
truly  an  agent  or  the  cause  of  any  event ;  but  they 
signify  merely  men's  ignorance  of  the  real  and  im- 
mediate cause.  —  Adam  Clarke. 

What  can  be  more  foolish  than  to  think  that  all 
this  rare  fabric  of  heaven  and  earth  could  come  by 
chance,  when  all  the  skill  of  art  is  not  able  to  make 
an  oyster !  —  Jeremy  Taylor. 

He  who  distrusts  the  security  of  chance  takes 
more  pains  to  effect  the  safety  which  results  from 
labor.  To  find  what  you  seek  in  the  road  of  life, 
the  best  proverb  of  all  is  that  which  says:  "  Leave 
no  stone  unturned."  — Bulwer-Lytton. 

Change .  —  The  great  world  spins  forever  down 
the  ringing  grooves  of  change.  —  Tennyson. 

A  change  came  o'er  the  spirit  of  my  dream.  — 
Byi-on. 

In  this  world  of  change,  naught  which  comes 
stays,  and  naught  which  goes  is  lost.  —  Madame 
SwelcMne. 

Character.  —  As  there  is  much  beast  and 
some  devil  in  man,  so  is  there  some  angel  and  some 
God  in  him.  The  beast  and  the  devil  may  be  con- 
quered, but  in  this  life  never  destroyed. —  Coleridge. 

Character  is  not  cut  in  marble  —  it  is  not  some- 
thing solid  and  unalterable.  It  is  something  living 
and  "changing,  and  may  become  diseased  as  our 
bodies  do.  —  George  Eliot. 

Grit  is  the  grain  of  character.  It  may  generally 
be  described  as  heroism  materialized,  —  spirit  and 
will  thrust  into  heart,  brain,  and  backbone,  so  as  to 
form  part  of  the  physical  substance  of  the  man. 
—  Whipple. 


CHA  37  CHA 

Depend  upon  it,  you  would  gain  unspeakably  if 
you  would  learn  with  me  to  see  some  of  the  poetry 
and  the  pathos,  the  tragedy  and  the  comedy,  lying 
in  the  experience  of  a  human  soul  that  looks  out 
through  dull  gray  eyes,  and  that  speaks  in  a  voice 
of  quite  ordinary  tones.  —  George  Eliot. 

Character  is  the  diamond  that  scratches  every 
other  stone   —  Bartol. 

Character  is  human  nature  in  its  best  form.  It  is 
moral  order  embodied  in  the  individual.  Men  of 
character  are  not  only  the  conscience  of  society,  but 
in  every  well-governed  state  they  are  its  best  mo- 
tive power;  for  it  is  moral  qualities  in  the  main 
which  rule  the  world.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

lie  whose  life  seems  fair,  if  all  his  errors  and  fol- 
lies were  articled  against  him  would  seem  vicious 
and  miserable.  — Jeremy  Taylor. 

In  common  discourse  we  denominate  persons  and 
things  according  to  the  major  part  of  their  charac- 
ter :  he  is  to  be  called  a  wise  man  who  has  but  few 
follies. — Watts. 

Never  does  a  man  portray  his  own  character  more 
vividly  than  in  his  manner  of  portraying  another. 
—  Richter. 

We  are  not  that  we  are,  nor  do  we  treat  or  es- 
teem each  other  for  such,  but  for  that  we  are  capa- 
ble of  being.  —  Thoreau. 

Charity.  —  Charity  is  a  principle  of  prevailing 
love  to  God  and  good-will  to  men,  which  effectually 
inclines  one  endued  with  it  to  glorify  God,  and  to 
do  good  to  others.  —  Cruden. 

The  highest  exercise  of  charity  is  charity  towards 
the  uncharitable.  —  Buckminster. 

The  charities  that  soothe,  and  heat,  and  bless, 
lie  scattered  at  the  feet  of  men  like  flowers.  — 
Wordsworth. 


CHA  88  CHA 

Prayer  carries  us  half  way  to  God,  fasting  brings 
us  to  the  door  of  his  palace,  and  alms-giving  pro- 
cures us  admission.  —  Koran. 

Shall  we  repine  at  a  little  misplaced  charity,  we 
who  could  no  way  foresee  the  effect,  —  when  an  all- 
knowing,  all-wise  Being  showers  down  every  day  his 
benefits  on  the  unthankful  and  undeserving?  —  At- 
terhury. 

As  the  purse  is  emptied  the  heart  is  filled. — Vic- 
tor Hugo. 

What  we  employ  in  charitable  uses  during  our 
lives  is  given  away  from  ourselves  :  what  we  be- 
queath at  our  death  is  given  from  others  only,  as  our 
nearest  relations.  —  Atterhury. 

Goodness  answers  to  the  theological  virtue  of  char- 
ity, and  admits  no  excess  but  error;  the  desire  of 
power  in  excess  caused  the  angels  to  fall ;  the  de- 
sire of  knowledge  in  excess  caused  man  to  fall ;  but 
in  charity  there  is  no  excess:  neither  can  angel  or 
man  come  into  danger  by  it.  —  Bacon. 

Poplicola's  doors  were  opened  on  the  outside,  to 
save  the  people  even  the  common  civility  of  asking 
entrance;  where  misfortune  wfis  a  powerful  recom- 
mendation, and  where  want  itself  was  a  powerful 
mediator.  —  Dry  den. 

When  thy  brother  has  lost  all  that  he  ever  had, 
and  lies  languishing,  and  even  gasping  under  the 
utmost  extremities  of  poverty  and  distress,  dost  thou 
think  to  lick  him  whole  again  only  with  thy  tongue  ? 
—  South. 

What  we  frankly  give,  forever  is  our  own.  —  Gran- 
ville. 

Faith  and  hope  themselves  shall  die,  while  death- 
less charity  remains.  —  Prior. 

The  place  of  charity,  like  that  of  God,  is  every- 
where. —  Professor  Vinet. 


CHA  39  cm 

People  do  not  care  to  give  alms  without  some  se- 
curity for  their  money,  and  a  wooden  leg  or  a  with- 
ered arm  is  a  sort  of  draftment  upon  heaven  for 
those  who  choose  to  have  their  money  placed  to  ac- 
count there.  —  Mackenzie. 

C  h  a  s  t  i  ty . — Chastity  enables  the  soul  to  breathe 
a  pure  air  in  the  foulest  places ;  continence  makes 
her  strong,  no  matter  in  what  condition  the  body 
may  be;  her  sway  over  the  senses  makes  her  queenly; 
her  light  and  peace  render  her  beautiful.  —  JouherL 

Cheerfulness.  —  Cheerfulness  is  also  an  ex- 
cellent wearing  quality.  It  has  been  called  the 
bright  weather  of  the  heart.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

There  is  no  Christian  duty  that  is  not  to  be  sea- 
soned and  set  off  with  cheerishness,  —  which  in  a 
thousand  outward  and  intermitting  crosses  may  yet 
be  done  well,  as  in  this  vale  of  tears.  —  Milton. 

Such  a  man,  truly  wise,  creams  of  nature,  leaving 
the  sour  and  the  dregs  for  philosophy  and  reason  to 
lap  up.  —  Swift. 

Be  thou  like  the  bird  perched  upon  some  frail 
thing,  although  he  feels  the  branch  bending  beneath 
him,  yet  loudly  sings,  knowing  full  well  that  he  has 
wings.  —  Mme.  de  Gasparin. 

Children.  —  With  children  we  must  mix  gentle- 
ness with  firmness  ;  they  must  not  always  have  their 
own  way,  but  they  must  not  always  be  thwarted.  If 
we  never  have  headaches  through  rebuking  them, 
we  shall  have  plenty  of  heartaches  when  they  grow 
up.  Be  obeyed  at  all  costs.  If  you  yield  up  your 
authority  once,  you  will  hardly  ever  get  it  again. — 
Spurgeon. 

The  smallest  children  are  nearest  to  God,  as  the 
smallest  planets  are  nearest  the  sun.  —  Richter. 

The  death  of  a  child  occasions  a  passion  of  grief 
and  frantic  tears,  such  as  your  end,  brother  reader, 
will  never  inspire.  —  Thackeray. 


cm  40  CHI 

Childhood  has  no  forebodings;  but  then,  it  is 
soothed  by  no  memories  of  outlived  sorrow.  —  Georae 
Eliot, 

Children  are  excellent  physiognomists  and  soon 
discover  their  real  friends.  Luttrell  calls  them  all 
lunatics,  and  so  in  fact  they  are.  What  is  child- 
hood but  a  series  of  happy  delusions  ?  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

The  clew  of  our  destiny,  wander  where  we  \dll, 
lies  at  the  cradle  foot.  —  RicUer. 

A  house  is  never  perfectly  furnished  for  enjoy- 
ment unless  there  is  a  child  in  it  rising  three  years 
old,  and  a  kitten  rising  three  weeks.  —  Southey. 

Children  have  more  need  of  models  than  of  crit- 
ics. —  Joubert. 

The  bearing  and  training  of  a  child  is  woman's 
•wisdom.  —  Tennyson. 

One  of  the  greatest  pleasures  of  childhood  is 
found  in  the  mysteries  which  it  hides  from  the  skep- 
ticism of  the  elders,  and  works  up  into  small  my- 
thologies of  its  own.  —  Holmes. 

Do  not  shorten  the  beautiful  veil  of  mist  covering 
childhood's  futurity,  by  too  hastily  drawing  away; 
but  permit  that  joy  to  be  of  early  commencement 
and  of  long  duration,  which  lights  up  life  so  beauti- 
fully. The  longer  the  morning  dew  remains  hang- 
ing in  the  blossoms  of  flowers,  the  more  beautiful 
the  day.  —  Richter. 

Where  children  are  there  is  the  golden  age. — 
Novalis. 

In  the  man  whose  childhood  has  known  caresses 
there  is  always  a  fibre  of  memory  that  can  be 
touched  to  gentle  issues.  —  George  Eliot. 

The  first  duty  towards  children  is  to  make  them 
happy.  If  you  have  not  made  them  happy,  you 
have  wronged  them  ;  no  other  good  they  may  get 
can  make  up  for  that.  —  Charles  Buxton, 


CHR  41  CHR 

Christ.  —  Our  religion  sets  before  us,  not  the 
example  of  a  stupid  stoic  who  had  by  obstinate  prin- 
ciples hardened  himself  against  all  sense  of  pain  be- 
yond the  common  measures  of  humanity,  but  an  ex- 
ample of  a  man  like  ourselves,  that  had  a  tender 
sense  of  the  least  suffering,  and  yet  patiently  en- 
dured the  greatest.  —  T'dlotson. 

However  consonant  to  reason  his  precepts  ap- 
peared, nothing  could  have  tempted  men  to  acknowl- 
edge him  as  their  God  and  Saviour  but  their  being 
firmly  persuaded  of  the  miracles  he  wrought.  —  Ad- 
dison. 

Imitate  Jesus  Christ.  —  Franklin. 

The  history  of  Christ  is  as  surely  poetry  as  it  is 
history,  and  in  general,  only  that  history  is  history 
which  might  also  be  fable.  —  Novalis. 

Christianity.  —  Christianity  is  within  a  man, 
even  as  he  is  gifted  with  reason  ;  it  is  associated 
with  your  mother's  chair,  and  with  the  first  remem- 
bered tones  of  her  blessed  voice.  —  Coleridge. 

There  was  never  law,  or  sect,  or  opinion,  did  so 
much  magnify  goodness  as  the  Christian  religion 
doth.  —  Bacon. 

No  religion  ever  appeared  in  the  world  whose  nat- 
ural tendency  was  so  much  directed  to  promote  the 
peace  and  happiness  of  mankind.  It  makes  right 
reason  a  law  in  every  possible  definition  of  the  word. 
And  therefore,  even  supposing  it  to  have  been  purely 
a  human  invention,  it  had  been  the  most  amiable 
and  the  most  useful  invention  that  was  ever  imposed 
on  mankind  for  their  good.  —  Lord  Bolinghroke. 

Far  beyond  all  other  political  powers  of  Christian- 
ity is  the  demiurgic  power  of  this  religion  over  the 
kingdoms  of  human  opinion.  —  De  Quincey. 

Christianity  is  the  companion  of  liberty  in  all  its 
conflicts,  —  the  cradle  of  its  infancy  and  the  divine 
source  of  its  claims.  —  De  Tocqueville. 


CHR  42  CHR 

Nature  never  gives  to  a  living  thing  capacities  not 
particularly  meant  for  its  benefit  and  use.  If  nature 
gives  to  us  capacities  to  believe  that  we  have  a 
Creator  whom  we  never  saw,  of  whom  we  have  no 
direct  proof,  who  is  kind  and  good  and  tender  beyond 
all  that  we  know  of  kindness  and  goodness  and  ten- 
derness on  earth,  it  is  because  the  endowment  of 
capacities  to  conceive  a  Being  must  be  for  our  ben- 
efit and  use;  it  would  not  be  lor  our  benefit  and  use 
if  it  were  a  lie.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

A  man  can  no  more  be  a  Christian  without  facing 
evil  and  conquering  it  than  he  can  be  a  soldier 
without  going  to  battle,  facing  the  cannon's  mouth, 
and  encountering  the  enemy  in  the  field.  —  Chapin. 

There  was  never  found  in  any  age  of  the  world, 
either  philosophy,  or  sect  or  religion,  or  law  or  dis- 
cipline, which  did  so  highly  exalt  the  good  of  com- 
munion, and  depress  good  private  and  particular,  as 
the  holy  Christian  faith:  hence  it  clearly  appears 
that  it  was  one  and  the  same  God  that  gave  the 
Christian  law  to  men  who  gave  those  laws  of  nature 
to  the  creatures.  —  Bacon. 

Christianity  is  intensely  practical.  She  has  no 
trait  more  striking  than  her  common  sense. — Charles 
Buxton. 

Christianity  ruined  emperors,  but  saved  peoples. 
It  opened  the  palaces  of  Constantinople  to  the  bar- 
barians, but  it  opened  the  doors  of  cottages  to  the 
consoling  angels  of  the  Saviour,  — Alfred  de  Mussel. 

Always  put  the  best  interpretation  on  a  tenet. 
Why  not  on  Christianity,  wholesome,  sweet,  and 
poetic?  It  is  the  record  of  a  pure  and  holy  soul, 
humble,  absolutely  disinterested,  a  truth-speaker, 
and  bent  on  serving,  teaching,  and  uplifting  men. 
Christianity  taught  the  capacity,  the  element,  to 
love  the  All-perfect  without  a  stingy  bargain  for  per- 
sonal happiness.  It  taught  that  to  love  him  was  hap- 
piness,—  to  love  him  in  others'  virtues.  —  Emerson. 


CHR  43  CIR 

Christian  faith  is  a  grand  cathedral  with  divinely 
pictured  windows.  Standing  without,  you  see  no 
glory  nor  can  possibly  imagine  any;  standing  within, 
every  ray  of  light  reveals  a  harmony  of  unspeakable 
splendors.  —  Hawthorne. 

Christians  are  like  the  several  flowers  in  a  garden, 
that  have  each  of  them  the  dew  of  heaven,  which, 
being  shaken  with  the  wind,  they  let  fall  at  each 
other's  roots,  whereby  they  are  jointly  nourished,  and 
become  nourishers  of  each  other.  —  Bunyan. 

Church.  —  The  Church  is  a  union  of  men  aris- 
ing from  the  fellowship  of  religious  life;  a  union  es- 
sentially independent  of,  and  differing  from,  all  other 
forms  of  human  association.  —  Rev.  Dr.  Neander. 

A  place  where  misdevotion  frames  a  thousand 
prayers  to  saints.  —  Donne. 

She  may  still  exist  in  undiminished  vigor,  when 
some  traveler  from  New  Zealand  shall,  in  the  midst 
of  a  vast  solitude,  take  his  stand  on  a  broken  arch 
of  London  bridge,  to  sketch  the  ruins  of  St.  Paul's. 
—  Macaulay. 

Surely  the  church  is  a  place  where  one  day's  truce 
ought  to  be  allowed  to  the  dissensions  and  animosi- 
ties of  mankind.  —  Burke. 

God  never  had  a  house  of  prayer  but  Satan  had  a 
chapel  there.  —  De  Foe. 

The  church  is  a  sort  of  hospital  for  men's  souls, 
and  as  full  of  quackery  as  the  hospital  for  their 
bodies.  Those  who  are  taken  into  it  live  like  pen- 
sioners in  their  Retreat  or  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor, 
where  you  may  see  a  row  of  religions  cripples  sitting 
outside  in  sunny  weather.  —  Thoreau. 

Circumstances.  —  Circumstances  are  the 
rulers  of  the  weak ;  they  are  but  the  instruments  of 
the  wise.  —  Samuel  Lover. 

What  saves  the  virtue  of  many  a  woman  is  that 
protecting  god,  the  impossible.  —  Balzac. 


CIV  44  COM 

Civilization . — Mankind's  strucrgle  upwards, 
in  which  millions  are  trampled  to  death,  that  thou- 
sands may  mount  on  their  bodies. — Mrs.  Balfour. 

The  old  Hindoo  saw,  in  his  dream,  the  human 
race  led  out  to  its  various  fortunes.  First  men  were 
in  chains  which  went  back  to  an  iron  hand.  Then 
he  saw  them  led  by  threads  from  the  brain,  which 
went  upward  to  an  unseen  hand.  The  first  was  des- 
potism, iron  and  ruling  by  force.  The  last  was  civ- 
ilization, ruling  by  ideas.  — Wendell  Phillips. 

Nations,  like  individuals,  live  and  die;  but  civil- 
ization cannot  die.  —  Mazzini. 

Clergymen.  —  The  life  of  a  conscientious 
clergyman  is  not  easy.  I  have  always  considered  a 
clergyman  as  the  father  of  a  larger  family  than  he  is 
able  to  maintain.  I  would  rather  have  Chancery 
suits  upon  my  hands  than  the  cure  of  souls.  I  do 
not  envy  a  clergyman's  life  as  an  easy  life,  nor  do 
I  envy  the  clergyman  who  makes  it  an  easy  life.  — 
Johnson. 

Clergymen  consider  this  world  only  as  a  diligence 
in  which  they  can  travel  to  another.  —  Napoleon. 

The  clergy  are  as  like  as  peas.  —  Emerson. 

Commander.  —  The  right  of  commanding  is 
no  longer  an  advantage  transmitted  by  nature  like 
an  inheritance;  it  is  the  fruit  of  labors,  the  price  of 
courage.  — Voltaire. 

The  trident  of  Neptune  is  the  sceptre  of  the 
world.  — Antoine  Lemierre. 

He  who  rules  must  humor  full  as  much  as  he  com- 
mands. —  George  Eliot. 

Commerce.  —  She  may  well  be  termed  the 
younger  sister,  for,  in  all  emergencies,  she  looks  to 
agriculture  both  for  defense  and  for  supply.  —  Colton. 

Commerce  defies  every  wind,  outrides  every  tem- 
pest, and  invades  every  zone.  —  Bancroft. 


COM  45  COM 

Common  Sense.  —  If  common  sense  has 
not  the  brilliancy  of  the  sun  it  has  the  fixity  of  the 
stars. —  Fernan  Cdballero. 

Co  mmunists.  —  One  who  has  yearnings  for 
equal  division  of  unequal  earnings.  Idler  or  bung- 
ler, he  is  willing  to  fork  out  his  penny  and  pocket 
your  shilling.  —  Ehenezer  Elliott. 

Your  leaders  wish  to  level  down  as  far  as  them- 
selves; but  they  cannot  bear  leveling  up  to  them- 
selves. They  would  all  have  some  people  under  them; 
why  not  then  have  some  people  above  them.  —  John- 
son. 

Communism  possesses  a  language  which  every 
people  can  understand.  Its  elements  are  hunger, 
envy,  death.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Comparison.  —  All  comparisons  are  odious. 
Ceronfites. 

If  we  rightly  estimate  what  we  call  good  and  evil, 
we  shall  find  it  lies  much  in  comparison.  — Locke. 

Compassion.  —  The  dew  of  compassion  is  a 
tear.  —  Byron. 

Compensation.  —  Cloud  and  rainbow  appear 
together.  There  is  wisdom  in  the  saying  of  Feltham, 
that  the  whole  creation  is  kept  in  order  by  discord, 
and  that  .  vicissitude  maintains  the  world.  Many 
evils  bring  many  blessings.  Manna  drops  in  the 
wilderness  —  corn  grows  in  Canaan.  — Willmott. 

It  is  some  compensation  for  great  evils  that  they 
enforce  great  lessons.  —  Bove'e. 

Complaining. — We  do  not  wisely  when  we 
vent  complaint  and  censure.  Human  nature  is  more 
sensible  of  smart  in  suffering  than  of  pleasure  in  re- 
joicing, and  the  present  endurances  easily  take  up 
our  thoughts.  We  cry  out  for  a  little  pain,  when 
we  do  but  smile  for  a  great  deal  of  contentment. 
—  Feltham. 


COM  46  CON 

Our  condition  never  satisfies  us ;  the  present  is 
always  the  worst.  Though  Jupiter  should  grant  his 
request  to  each,  we  should  continue  to  importune 
him.  —  Fontaine. 

Conceit. —  Wind  puffs  up  empty  bladders; 
opinion,  fools.  —  Socrates. 

Seest  thou  a  man  wise  in  his  own  conceit?  there 
is  more  hope  of  a  fool  than  of  him.  —  Bible. 

Nature  has  sometimes  made  a  fool,  but  a  coxcomb 
is  always  of  a  man's  own  making.  —  Addison. 

Everything  without  tells  the  individual  that  he  is 
nothing;  everything  within  persuades  him  that  he  is 
everything.  —  X.  Doudan. 

Apes  look  down  on  men  as  degenerate  specimens 
of  their  own  race,  just  as  Hollanders  regard  the 
German  language  as  a  corruption  of  the  Dutch.  — 
Heinrich  Heine. 

If  its  colors  were  but  fast  colors,  self-conceit  would 
be  a  most  comfortable  quality.  But  life  is  so  hum- 
bling, mortifying,  disappointing  to  vanity,  that  a 
man's  great  idea  of  himself  gets  washed  out  of  him 
by  the  time  he  is  forty.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

One's  self-satisfaction  is  an  untaxed  kind  of  prop- 
erty which  it  is  very  unpleasant  to  find  depreciated. 
—  George  Eliot. 

The  pious  vanity  of  man  makes  him  adore  his  own 
qualities  under  the  pretense  of  worshiping  those  of 
God.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Confidence.  —  Confidence  imparts  a  won- 
drous inspiration  to  its  possessor.  It  bears  him  on 
in  security,  either  to  meet  no  danger,  or  to  find 
matter  of  glorious  trial.  —  Milton. 

Society  is  built  upon  trust,  and  trust  upon  confi- 
dence of  one  another's  integrity.  —  South. 


CON  47  CON 

Conscience.  —  Conscience  is  not  law;  no, 
God  and  reason  made  the  law,  and  have  placed 
conscience  within  you  to  determine.  —  Sterne. 

There  are  moments  when  the  pale  and  modest 
star,  kindled  by  God  in  simple  hearts,  which  men 
call  conscience,  illumines  our  path  with  truer  light 
than  the  flaming  comet  of  genius  on  its  magnificent 
course.  —  Mazzini. 

No  thralls  like  them  that  inward  bondage  have. 
—  Sir  P.  Sidney. 

Some  people  have  no  perspective  in  their  con- 
science. Their  moral  convictions  are  the  same  on 
all  subjects.  They  are  like  a  reader  who  speaks 
every  Avord  with  equal  emphasis.  —  Beecher. 

Conscience  enables  us  not  merely  to  learn  the 
right  by  experiment  and  induction,  but  intuitively 
and  in  advance  of  experiment;  so,  in  addition  to  the 
experimental  way  whereby  we  learn  justice  from  the 
facts  of  human  history,  we  have  a  transcendental 
way,  and  learn  it  from  the  facts  of  human  nature, 
and  from  immediate  consciousness.  —  Theodore  Par- 
ker. 

A  man's  own  conscience  is  his  sole  tribunal;  and 
he  should  care  no  more  for  that  phantom  "  opin- 
ion "  than  he  should  fear  meeting  a  ghost  if  he  cross 
the  churchyard  at  dark.  —  Lrjtton. 

Conscience  is  a  coward,  and  those  faults  it  has 
not  strength  enough  to  prevent  it  seldom  has  justice 
enough  to  accuse. —  Goldsmith. 

To  say  that  we  have  a  clear  conscience  is  to  utter 
a  solecism  :  had  we  never  sinned  we  should  have 
had  no  conscience.  —  Carlyle. 

The  most  miserable  pettifogging  in  the  world  is 
that  of  a  man  in  the  court  of  his  own  conscience.  — 
Beecher. 

Conscience  serves  us  especially  to  judge  of  the 
actions  of  others.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 


CON  48  CON 

It  is  astonishing  how  soon  the  whole  conscience 
begins  to  unravel  if  a  single  stitch  drops ;  one  single 
sin  indulged  in  makes  a  hole  you  could  put  your 
head  through.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

A  still  small  voice.  — Bible. 

Constancy.  —A  good  man  it  is  not  mine  to  see ; 
could  I  see  a  man  possessed  of  constancy,  that  would 
satisfy  me.  —  Confucius. 

Constancy  is  the  chimera  of  \o\Q.  —  Vauvenargues. 

Constancy  is  the  complement  of  all  the  other  hu- 
man virtues.  —  Mazzini. 

Contempt. — No  sacred  fane  requires  us  to 
submit  to  contempt.  —  Goethe. 

There  is  not  in  human  nature  a  more  odious  dis- 
position than  a  proneness  to  contempt,  which  is  a 
mixture  of  pride  and  ill-nature.  Nor  is  there  any 
which  more  certainly  denotes  a  bad  mind;  for  in  a 
good  and  benign  temper  there  can  be  no  room  for 
this  sensation.  —  Fielding. 

Contentment.  —  That  happy  state  of  mind, 
so  rarely  possessed,  in  which  we  can  say,  "  I  have 
enough,"  is  the  highest  attainment  of  philosophy. 
Happiness,  consists,  not  in  possessing  much,  but  in 
being  content  with  what  we  possess.  He  who  wants 
little  always  has  enough.  —  Zimmermann. 

It  is  both  the  curse  and  blessing  of  our  American 
life  that  we  are  never  quite  content.  We  all  expect 
to  go  somewhere  before  we  die,  and  have  a  better 
time  when  we  get  there  than  we  can  have  at  home. 
The  bane  of  our  life  is  discontent.  We  say  we  will 
work  so  long,  and  then  we  will  enjoy  ourselves. 
But  we  find  it  just  as  Thackeray  has  expressed  it. 
"When  I  was  a  boy,"  he  said,  "1  wanted  some 
taffy  —  it  was  a  shilling  —  I  had  n't  one.  When  I 
was  a  man,  I  had  a  shilling,  but  I  did  n't  want  any 
taffy."  —  Robert  Colly er. 


CON  49  CON 

Submission  is  the  only  reasoning  between  a  creat- 
ure and  its  Maker;  and  contentment  in  his  will  is 
the  best  remedy  we  can  apply  to  misfortunes.  —  Sir 
W.  Temple. 

Where  God  hath  put  exquisite  tinge  upon  the 
shell  washed  in  the  surf,  and  planted  a  paradise  of 
bloom  in  a  child's  cheek,  let  us  leave  it  to  the  owl 
to  hoot,  and  the  frog  to  croak,  and  the  fault-finder 
to  complain.  —  De  Witt  Talmage. 

Contrast.  —  The  lustre  of  diamonds  is  invig- 
orated by  the  interposition  of  darker  bodies;  the 
lights  of  a  picture  are  created  by  the  shades.  The 
highest  pleasure  which  nature  has  indulged  to  sensi- 
tive perception  is  that  of  rest  after  fatigue. — John- 
son. 

Controversy. —  He  that  wrestles  with  us 
strengthens  our  nerves  and  sharpens  our  skill.  Our 
antagonist  is  our  helper.  —  Burke. 

What  TuUy  says  of  war  may  be  applied  to  dis- 
puting, —  it  should  be  always  so  managed  as  to  re- 
member that  the  only  true  end  of  it  is  peace  :  but 
generally  true  disputants  are  like  true  sportsmen,  — 
their  whole  delight  is  in  the  pursuit ;  and  a  disputant 
no  more  cares  for  the  truth  than  the  sportsman  for 
the  hare.  —  Pope. 

I  am  yet  apt  to  think  that  men  find  their  simple 
ideas  agree,  though  in  discourse  they  confound  one 
another  with  different  names.  — Locke. 

A  man  takes  contradiction  much  more  easily  than 
people  think,  only  he  will  not  bear  it  when  violently 
given,  even  though  it  be  well-founded.  Hearts  are 
flowers;  they  remain  open  to  the  softly-falling  dew, 
but  shut  up  in  the  violent  down-pour  of  rain.  — 
lllchter. 

Conversation.  —  They  who  have  the  true 
taste  of  conversation  enjoy   themselves  in  a  com- 
munication of  each  other's  excellences,  and  not  in  a 
triumph  over  their  imperfections.  —  Addison. 
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CON  50  COU 

It  is  good  to  rub  and  polish  our  brain  against  that 
of  others.  —  Montaigne. 

Your  reasons  at  dinner  have  been  sharp  and  sen- 
tentious ;  pleasant  without  scurrility,  witty  without 
affectation,  audacious  without  impudency,  learned 
without  opinion,  and  strange  without  heresy.  — 
Shakespeare. 

No  one  will  ever  shine  in  conversation  who  thinks 
of  saying  fine  things  ;  to  please  one  must  say  many 
things  indifferent,  and  many  very  bad.  —  Francis 
Lockier. 

Conversation  warms  the  mind,  enlivens  the  imag- 
ination, and  is  continually  starting  fresh  game  that 
is  immediately  pursued  and  taken,  and  which  would 
never  have  occurred  in  the  duller  intercourse  of  epis- 
tolary correspondence.  —  Franklin. 

Coquetry.  —  The  most  effective  coquetry  is 
innocence.  —  Lamartine. 

God  created  the  coquette  as  soon  as  he  had  made 
the  fool.  — Victor  Hugo. 

Affecting  to  seem  unaffected.  —  Congreve. 

Tliough  'tis  pleasant  weaving  nets,  'tis  wiser  to 
make  cages.  —  Moore. 

Beautiful  tyrant !    Fiend  angelical !  —  Shakespeare. 

New  vows  to  plight,  and  plighted  vows  to  break. 
—  Dryden. 

Courage.—  God  holds  with  the  strong.  —  Maz- 
zini. 

Courage  is  generosity  of  the  highest  order,  for  the 
brave  are  prodigal  of  the  most  precious  things.  — 
Colton. 

Courage  that  irrows  from  constitution  often  for- 
sakes the  man  when  he  has  occasion  for  it;  courage 
which  arises  from  a  sense  of  duty  acts  in  a  uniform 
manner.  —  Addison. 


ecu  51  GOV 

Courage  from  hearts,  and  not  from  numbers, 
grows.  —  Dryden. 

As  to  moral  courage,  I  have  very  rarely  met  with 
the  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  courage.  1  mean  un- 
prepared courage,  that  which  is  necessary  on  an  un- 
exi)ected  occasion,  and  which,  in  spite  of  the  most 
unforeseen  events,  leaves  full  freedom  of  judgment 
and  decision.  —  Napoleon. 

Courage  our  greatest  failings  does  supply. — 
Waller. 

To  bear  is  to  conquer  our  fate.  —  Campbell. 

Moral  courage  is  more  worth  having  than  phys- 
ical ;  not  only  because  it  is  a  higher  virtue,  but  be- 
cause the  demand  for  it  is  more  constant.  Physical 
courage  is  a  virtue  which  is  almost  always  put  away 
in  the  lumber  room.  Moral  courage  is  wanted  day 
by  day.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

It  is  only  in  little  matters  that  men  are  cowards. 
—  William  Henry  Herbert. 

Any  coward  can  fight  a  battle  when  he 's  sure  of 
winning;  but  give  me  the  man  who  has  pluck  to  fight 
when  he  's  sure  of  losing.  —  George  Eliot. 

He  who  would  arrive  at  fairy  land  must  face  the 
phantoms.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Courtier  .  —  The  court  is  like  a  palace  built  of 
marble  ;  I  mean  that  it  is  made  up  of  very  hard  and 
very  polished  people.  —  La  Bruyere. 

AVith  the  people  of  court  the  tongue  is  the  artery 
of  their  withered  life,  tlie  spiral-spring  and  flag- 
feather  of  their  souls.  —  Richter. 

Covetousness.  —  Desire  of  having  is  the  sin 
of  covetousness.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  character  of  covetousness  is  what  a  man  gen- 
erally acquires  more  tliroufih  some  niggardness  or  ill 
grace,  in  little  and  inconsiderable  things,  than  in 
expenses  of  any  consequence.  —  Pope. 


GOV  52  CRI 

The  world  itself  is  too  small  for  tlie  covetous.  — 
Seneca. 

Cowardice.  —  At  the  bottom  of  a  good  deal 
of  the  bravery  that  appears  in  the  world  there  lurks 
a  miserable  cowardice.  Men  will  face  powder  and 
steel  because  they  cannot  face  public  opinion.  — 
Chapin. 

Credulity.  —  Quick  believers  need  broad  shoul- 
ders. —  George  Herbert. 

Let  us  believe  what  we  can  and  hope  for  the  rest. 

—  De  Finod. 

When  credulity  comes  from  the  heart  it  does  no 
harm  to  the  intellect.  —  Jouhert. 

What  believer  sees  a  disturbing  omission  or  infe- 
licity? The  text,  whether  of  prophet  or  of  poet,  ex- 
pands for  whatever  we  can  put  into  it,  and  even  his 
bad  grammar  is  sublime.  —  George  Eliot. 

Observe  your  enemies  for  they  first  find  out  your 
faults.  —  Antishenes. 

Action  is  generally  defective,  and  proves  an  abor- 
tion without  previous  contemplation.  Contemplation 
generates,  action  propagates.  —  Feltham. 

Crime.  —  If  poverty  is  the  mother  of  crimes, 
want  of  sense  is  the  father  of  them,  —  Bruyere. 

Crimes  lead  into  one  another.  They  who_  are  cap- 
able of  being  forgers  are  capable  of  being  incendia- 
ries. —  Burke. 

Criticism.  —  Solomon  says  rightly:  "The 
wounds  made  by  a  friend  are  worth  more  than  the 
caresses  of  a  flatterer."  Nevertheless,  it  is  bet- 
ter that  the  friend  wound  not  at  all. — Joseph  de 
Maistre. 

The  rule  in  carving  holds  good  as  to  criticism,  — 
never  cut  with  a  knife  what  you  can  cut  with  a  spoon. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 


CM  53  CRU 

The  critic  eye,  that  microscope  of  wit.  —  Pope. 

Men  have  commonly  more  pleasure  in  the  criti- 
cism which  hurts,  than  in  that  which  is  innocuous; 
and  are  more  tolerant  of  the  severity  which  breaks 
hearts  and  ruins  fortunes,  than  of  that  which  falls 
impotently  on  the  grave.  —  Ruskin. 

Certain  critics  resemble  closely  those  people  who 
when  they  would  laugh  show  ugly  teeth.  —  Jouhert. 

Everyone  is  eagle-eyed  to  see  another's  faults  and 
his  deformity.  —  Dryden. 

For  I  am  nothing  if  not  critical.  —  Shakespeare, 

He  who  stabs  you  in  the  dark  with  a  pen  would 
do  the  same  with  a  penknife,  were  he  equally  safe 
from  detection  and  the  law.  —  Quintilian. 

Silence  is  the  severest  criticism. —  Charles  Buxton. 

All  the  other  powers  of  literature  are  coy  and 
haughty,  they  must  be  long  courted,  and  at  last  are 
not  always  gained;  but  criticism  is  a  goddess  easy  of 
access  and  forward  of  advance,  she  will  meet  the 
slow  and  encourage  the  timorous.  The  want  of 
meaning  she  supplies  with  words,  and  the  want  of 
spirit  she  recompenses  with  malignity.  — Johnson. 

It  is  a  barren  kind  of  criticism  which  tells  you 
what  a  thing  is  not.  —  liufus  Griswold. 

The  legitimate  aim  of  criticism  is  to  direct  atten- 
tion to  the  excellent.  The  bad  will  dig  its  own 
grave,  and  the  imperfect  may  be  safely  left  to  that 
final  neglect  from  which  no  amount  of  present  un- 
deserved popularity  can  rescue  it.  —  Bovee. 

There  are  some  critics  who  change  everything 
that  comes  under  their  hnnds  to  gold,  but  to  this 
privilege  of  Midas  they  join  sometimes  his  ears!  — 
J.  Petit  Senn. 

Cruelty.  —  Cruelty,  the  sign  of  currish  kind. 
—  Spenser. 


CRU  54  CUN 

One  of  the  ill  effects  of  cruelty  is  that  it  makes 
the  by-standers  cruel.  How  hard  the  English  people 
grew  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIH.  and  Bloody  Mary. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 

Man's  inhumanity  to  man  makes  countless  thou- 
sands mourn.  —  Burns. 

Cruelty,  like  every  other  vice,  requires  no  motive 
outside  of  itself  ;  it  only  requires  opportunity.  — 
George  Eliot. 

Cultivation. —  Cultivation  is  the  economy  of 
force.  —  Liebig. 

The  highest  purpose  of  intellectual  cultivation  is 
to  give  a  man  a  perfect  knowledge  and  mastery  of 
his  own  inner  self;  to  render  our  consciousness  its 
own  light  and  its  own  mirror.  Hence  there  is  the 
less  reason  to  be  surprised  at  our  inability  to  enter 
fully  into  the  feelings  and  characters  of  others.  No 
one  who  has  not  a  complete  knowledge  of  himself 
■will  ever  have  a  true  understanding  of  another.  — 
No  calls. 

Neither  the  naked  hand,  nor  the  understanding, 
left  to  itself,  can  do  much;  the  work  is  accomplished 
by  instruments  and  helps  of  which  the  need  is  not 
less  for  the  understanding  than  the  hand.  —  Bacon. 

....  Without  art,  a  nation  is  a  .soulless  body; 
without  science,  a  straying  wanderer.  Without 
warmth  and  light,  nature  cannot  thrive,  nor  hu- 
manity increase :  the  light  and  warmth  of  humanity 
is  "  art  and  science."  —  Kozlay. 

Cunning.  —  Cunning  has  effect  friam  the  cre- 
dulity of  others,  rather  than  from  the  abilities  of 
those  who  are  cunning.  It  requires  no  extraordi- 
nary talents  to  lie  and  deceive.  —  Johnson. 

Cleverness  and  cunning  are  incompatible.  I  never 
saw  them  united.  The  latter  is  the  resource  of  the 
weak,  and  is  only  natural  to  them  ;  children  and 
fools  are  always  cunning,  but  clever  people  never. 

—  Byron. 


CUN  55  CYN 

Discourage  cunning  in  a  child;  cunning  is  the  ape 
of  wisdom.  —  Locke. 

Cunning  signifies  especially  a  habit  or  gift  of 
overreaching,  accompanied  with  enjoyment  and  a 
sense  of  superiority.  It  is  associated  with  small  and 
dull  conceit,  and  with  an  absolute  want  of  sympathy 
or  affection.  It  is  the  intensest  rendering  of  vulgar- 
ity, absolute  and  utter.  —  Ruskin. 

Curiosity.  —  A  person  who  is  too  nice  an  ob- 
server of  the  business  of  the  crowd,  like  one  who  is 
too  curious  in  observing  the  labor  of  the  bees,  will 
often  be  stung  for  his  curiosity.  —  Pope. 

The  gratification  of  curiosity  rather  frees  us  from 
uneasiness  than  confers  pleasure  ;  we  are  more 
pained  by  ignorance  than  delighted  by  instruction. 
Curiosity  is  the  thirst  of  the  soul.  —  Johnson. 

Custom.  —  The  despotism  of  custom  is  on  the 
wane  ;  we  are  not  content  to  know  that  things  are  ; 
we  ask  whether  they  ought  to  be.  —  John  Stuart  Mill. 

Immemorial  custom  is  transcendent  law.  —  Menu. 

In  this  great  society  wide  lying  around  us,  a  crit- 
ical analysis  would  find  very  few  spontaneous  ac- 
tions. It  is  almost  all  custom  and  gross  sense.  — 
Emerson. 

Custom  doth  make  dotards  of  us  all.  —  Carlyle. 

Cynics.  —  It  will  be  very  generally  found  that 
those  who  sneer  habitually  at  human  nature,  and 
affect  to  despise  it,  are  among  its  worst  and  least 
pleasant  samples.  —  Dickens. 

Cynicism  is  old  at  twenty.  —  Bulwer-Lytton, 


DAN  56  DEA 


D. 

Dandy.  —  A  dandy  is  a  clothes- wearing  man,  — 
a  man  whose  trade,  office,  and  existence  consist  in 
the  wearing  of  clothes.  Every  faculty  of  his  soul, 
spirit,  person,  and  purse  is  heroically  consecrated 
to  this  one  object,  —  the  wearing  of  clothes  wisely 
and  well;  so  that  as  others  dress  to  live,  he  lives  to 
dress.  —  Carlyle. 

A  fool  may  have  his  coat  embroidered  with  gold, 
but  it  is  a  fool's  coat  still.  —  Rivarol. 

Danger.  —  It  is  better  to  meet  danger  than  to 
wait  for  it.  He  that  is  on  a  lee  shore,  and  foresees 
a  hurricane,  stands  out  to  sea,  and  encounters  a 
storm  to  avoid  a  shipwreck.  —  Colton. 

Death.  —  It  is  not  death,  it  is  dying,  that  alarms 
me.  — Montaigne. 

What  is  death  ?  To  go  out  like  a  light,  and  in  a 
sweet  trance  to  forget  ourselves  and  all  the  passing 
phenomena  of  the  day,  as  we  forget  the  phantoms 
of  a  fleeting  dream  ;  to  form,  as  in  a  drealn,  new 
connections  with  God's  world ;  to  enter  into  a  more 
exalted  sphere,  and  to  make  a  new  step  up  man's 
graduated  ascent  of  creation.  —  Zschokke, 

Heaven  gives  its  favorites  early  death.  —  Byron. 

Our  respect  for  the  dead,  when  they  are  jmt 
dead,  is  something  wonderful,  and  the  way  we  show 
it  more  wonderful  still.  We  show  it  with  black 
feathers  and  black  horses  ;  we  show  it  with  black 
dresses  and  black  heraldries ;  we  show  it  with  costly 
obelisks  and  sculptures  of  sorrow,  which  spoil  half 
of  our  beautiful  cathedrals.  We  show  it  with  fright- 
ful gratings  and  vaults,  and  lids  of  dismal  stone,  in 
the  midst  of  the  quiet  grass ;  and  last,  and  not  least, 
we  show  it  by  permitting  ourselves  to  tell  any  num- 
ber of  falsehoods  we  think  amiable  or  credible  in  the 
epitaph.  —  Ruskin. 


DEA  57  DEA 

There  are  remedies  for  all  things  but  death.  — 

Carlyle. 

We  understand  death  for  the  first  time  when  he 
puts  his  hand  upon  one  whom  we  love.  —  Mme.  de 
Stael. 

Too  early  fitted  for  a  better  state.  —  Dryden. 

Death,  the  dry  pedant,  spares  neither  the  rose 
nor  the  thistle,  nor  does  he  forget  the  solitary  blade 
of  grass  in  the  distant  waste.  He  destroys  thor- 
oughly and  unceasingly.  Everywhere  we  may  see 
how  he  crushes  to  dust  plants  and  beasts,  men  and 
their  works.  Even  the  Egyptian  pyramids,  thab 
would  seem  to  defy  him,  are  trophies  of  his  power, 

—  monuments  of  decay,  graves  of  primeval  kings.  — 
Heinrich  Heine, 

There  is  no  fireside,  howsoe'er  defended,  but  has 
one  vacant  chair !  —  Longfellow. 

And  though  mine  arm  should  conquer  twenty 
worlds,  there  's  a  lean  fellow  beats  all  conquerors. 

—  Thomas  Dekker. 

Death  is  a  commingling  of  eternity  tv  ith  time.  — 

Goethe. 

To  the  Christian,  whose  life  has  been  dark  with 
brooding  cares  that  would  not  lift  themselves,  and 
on  whom  chilling  rains  of  sorrow  have  fallen  at  in- 
tervals through  all  his  years,  death  is  but  the  clear- 
ing-up  shower  ;  and  just  behind  it  are  the  songs  of 
angels,  and  the  serenity  and  glory  of  heaven.  — 
Beecher. 

That  golden  key  that  opes  the  palace  of  eternity. 

—  Milton. 

When  death  gives  us  a  long  lease  of  life,  it  takes 
as  hostages  all  those  whom  we  have  loved.  —  Ma- 
dame Necker. 

Man  makes  a  death  which  nature  never  made.  — 
Young. 


DEA  58  DEA 

The  golden  ripple  on  the  wall  came  back  again, 
and  nothing  else  stirred  in  the  room.  The  old,  old 
fashion  !  The  fashion  that  came  in  with  our  first 
garments,  and  will  last  unchanged  until  our  race  has 
run  its  course,  and  the  wide  firmament  is  rolled  up 
like  a  scroll.  The  old,  old  fashion  —  Death  !  Oh, 
thank  God,  all  who  see  it,  for  that  older  fashion  yet 

—  of  Immortality  !  —  Dickens. 

God's  finger  touched  him,  and  he  slept. —  Tenny- 
son. 

Then  shall  the  dust  return  to  the  earth  as  it  was, 
and  the  spirit  shall  return  unto  God  who  gave  it.  — 
Bible. 

Nature  intends  that,  at  fixed  periods,  men  should 
succeed  each  other  by  the  instrumentality  of  death. 
We  shall  never  outwit  Nature ;  we  shall  die  as  usual. 

—  Fontenelle. 

After  life's  fitful  fever  he  sleeps  well.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Flesh  is  but  the  glass  which  holds  the  dust  that 
measures  all  our  time,  which  also  shall  be  crumbled 
into  dust.  —  George  Herbert. 

Death  expecteth  thee  everywhere  ;  be  wise,  there- 
fore, and  expect  death  everywhere.  —  Quarles. 

The  world.  Oh,  the  world  is  so  sweet  to  the  dy- 
ing !  —  Schiller. 

The  world  is  full  of  resurrections.  Every  night 
that  folds  us  up  in  darkness  is  a  death ;  and  those 
of  you  that  have  been  out  early,  and  have  seen  the 
first  of  the  dawn,  will  know  it, — the  day  rises  out 
of  the  night  like  a  being  that  has  burst  its  tomb  and 
escaped  into  life.  —  George  MacDonald. 

The  dissolution  of  forms  is  no  loss  in  the  mass  of 
matter.  —  Pliny. 

Faith  builds  a  bridge  across  the  gulf  of  death.  — 
Young. 


DEB  59  DEC 

Debt.  —  He  that  dies  pays  all  debts.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Poverty  is  hard,  but  debt  is  horrible ;  a  man  might 
as  well  have  a  smoky  house  and  a  scolding  wife, 
which  are  said  to  be  the  two  worst  evils  of  our  life. 
—  Spurgeon. 

The  first  step  in  debt  is  like  the  first  step  in  false- 
hood, almost  involving  the  necessity  of  proceeding 
in  the  same  course,  debt  following  debt  as  lie  follows 
lie.  Hay  don,  the  painter,  dated  his  decline  from 
the  day  on  which  he  first  borrowed  money.  —  Samuel 
Smiles. 

Do  not  accustom  yx)urself  to  consider  debt  only 
as  an  inconvenience;   you  will  find  it  a  calamity. — 

Johnson. 

That  swamp  [of  debt]  which  tempts  men  towards 
it  with  such  a  pretty  covering  of  flowers  and  verdure. 
It  is  wonderful  how  soon  a  man  gets  up  to  his  chin 
there,  —  in  a  condition  in  which,  spite  of  himself,  he 
is  forced  to  think  chiefly  of  release,  though  he  had  a 
scheme  of  the  universe  in  his  soul.  — ^  George  Eliot. 

Youth  is  in  danger  until  it  learns  to  look  upon 
debts  as  furies.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Deceit.  —  No  man,  for  any  considerable  period, 
can  wear  one  face  to  himself  and  another  to  the 
multitude,  without  finally  getting  bewildered  as  to 
which  may  be  true.  —  Hawthorne. 

Idiots  only  may  be  cozened  twice.  —  Dryden. 

It  is  a  double  pleasure  to  deceive  the  deceiver.  — 
Fontaine. 

There  is  less  misery  in  being  cheated  than  in  that 
kind  of  wisdom  which  perceives,  or  thinks  it  per- 
ceives, that  all  mankind  are  cheats.  —  Chapin. 

Like  unto  golden  hooks  that  from  the  foolish  fish 
their  baits  do  hide.  —  Spenser. 


DEC  60  BEE 

Libertines  are  hideous  spiders  that  often  catch 
pretty  butterflies.  —  Diderot. 

Decency.  —  As  beauty  of  body,  with  an  agree- 
able carriage,  pleases  the  eye,  and  that  pleasure  con- 
.aists  in  that  we  observe  all  the  parts  with  a  certain 
elegance  are  proportioned  to  each  other;  so  does 
decency  of  behavior  which  appears  in  our  lives  ob- 
tain the  approbation  of  all  with  whom  we  converse, 
from  the  order,  consistency,  and  moderation  of  our 
words  and  actions.  —  Steele. 

Virtue  and  decency  are  so  nearly  related  that  it  is 
difficult  to  separate  them  from  each  other  but  in  our 
imagination.  —  Tully. 

Declamation.  —  Fine  declamation  does  not 
consist  in  flowery  periods,  delicate  allusions,  or  mu- 
sical cadences,  but  in  a  plain,  open,  loose  style, 
where  the  periods  are  long  and  obvious ;  where  the 
same  thought  is  often  exhibited  in  several  points  of 
view.  —  Goldsmith. 

The  art  of  declamation  has  been  sinking  in  value 
from  the  moment  that  speakers  were  foolish  enough 
to  publish,  and  hearers  wise  enough  to  read. —  Colion. 

Deeds.  —  A  word  that  has  been  said  may  be 
unsaid  :  it  is  but  air.  But  when  a  deed  is  done,  it 
cannot  be  undone,  nor  can  our  thoughts  reach  out 
to  all  the  mischiefs  that  may  follow. — Lon<ifellow. 

How  oft  the  sight  of  means  to  do  ill  deeds  makes 
deeds  ill  done  !  —  Shakespeare. 

Legal  deeds  were  invented  to  remind  men  of  their 
promises,  or  to  convict  them  of  having  broken  them, 
—  a  stigma  on  the  human  race.  — Bruylre. 

Good  actions  ennoble  us,  and  we  are  the  sons  of 
our  own  deeds.  —  Cervantes. 

We  should  believe  only  in  works ;  words  are  sold 
for' nothing  everywhere.  —  Rojas. 


DEL  61  DEP 

Delay.  — We  do  not  directly  go  about  the  exe- 
cution of  the  purpose  that  thrills  us,  but  shut  our 
doors  behind  us,  and  ramble  with  prepared  minds, 
as  if  the  half  were  already  done.  Our  resolution  is 
taking  root  or  hold  on  the  earth  then,  as  seeds  first 
send  a  shoot  downward,  which  is  fed  by  their  own 
albumen,  ere  they  send  one  upwards  to  the  light. — 
Thoreau. 

Time  drinketh  up  the  essence  of  every  great  and 
noble  action,  which  ought  to  be  performed^  and  is 
delayed  in  the  execution. — Veeshnoo  Sarma. 

Democracy.  —  Democracy  will  itself  accom- 
plish the  salutary  universal  change  from  delusive  to 
real,  and  make  a  new  blessed  world  of  us  by  and 
by.  —  Carlyle. 

The  love  of  democracy  is  that  of  equality.  —  Mon- 
tesquieu. 

Dependence.  —  The  beautiful  must  ever  rest 
in  the  arms  of  the  sublime.  The  gentle  needs  the 
strong  to  sustain  it,  as  much  as  the  rock-flowers  need 
rocks  to  grow  on ,  or  the  ivy  the  rugged  wall  which 
it  embraces.  —  Mrs.  Stowe. 

Thou  shalt  know  by  experience  how  salt  the  sa- 
vor is  of  other's  bread,  and  how  sad  a  path  it  is  to 
climb  and  descend  another's  stairs.  —  Dante. 

How  beautifully  is  it  ordered,  that  as  many  thou- 
sands work  for  one,  so  must  every  individual  bring 
his  labor  to  make  the  whole  !  The  highest  is  not  to 
despise  the  lowest,  nor  the  lowest  to  envy  the  high- 
est ;  each  must  live  in  all  and  by  all.  Who  will  not 
work,  neither  shall  he  eat.  So  God  has  ordered  that 
men,  being  in  need  of  each  other,  should  learn  to 
love  each  other  and  bear  each  other's  burdens. —  G. 
A.  Sala. 

We  are  never  without  a  pilot.  When  we  know 
not  how  to  steer,  and  dare  not  hoist  a  sail,  we  can 
drift.  The  current  knows  the  way,  though  we  do 
not.  The  ship  of  heaven  guides  itself,  and  will  not 
accept  a  wooden  rudder.  —  Emerson. 


DES  62  DES 

Desire.  —  It  is  easier  to  suppress  the  first  desire 
than  to  satisfy  all  that  follow  it.  —  Franklin. 

Lack  of  desire  is  the  greatest  riches.  —  Seneca. 

Where  necessity  ends,  curiosity  begins  ;  and  no 
sooner  are  we  supplied  with  everything  that  nature 
can  demand,  than  we  sit  down  to  contrive  artificial 
appetites.  —  Johnson. 

The  thirst  of  desire  is  never  filled,  nor  fully  satis- 
fied. —  Cicero. 

The  man's  desire  is  for  the  woman  ;  but  the  wom- 
an's desire  is  rarely  other  than  for  the  desire  of  the 
man. —  Coleridge. 

Desires  are  the  pulse  of  the  soul.  —  Manton. 

Despair.  —  Considering  the  unforeseen  events 
of  this  world,  we  should  be  taught  that  no  human 
condition  should  inspire  men  with  absolute  despair. 
—  Fielding. 

Leaden-eyed  despair.  —  Keats, 

In  the  lottery  of  life  there  are  more  prizes  drawn 
than  blanks,  and  to  one  misfortune  there  are  fifty 
advantages.  Despondency  is  the  most  unprofitable 
feeling  a  man  can  indulge  in.  —  De  Witt  Talmage. 

He  that  despairs  limits  infinite  power  to  finite  ap- 
prehensions. —  South. 

It  is  impossible  for  that  man  to  despair  who  re- 
members that  his  helper  is  omnipotent.  —  Jeremy 
Taylor. 

He  that  despairs  measures  Providence  by  his  own 
little  contracted  model.  —  South. 

Juliet  was  a  fool  to  kill  herself,  for  in  three  months 
she  'd  have  married  again,  and  been  glad  to  be  quit 
of  Romeo.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

What  we  call  our  despair  is  often  only  the  painful 
eagerness  of  unfed  hope.  —  George  Eliot. 


DES  63  DET 

Despotism. — It  is  difficult  for  power  to  avoid 
despotism.  The  possessors  of  rude  health  ;  the  in- 
dividualities cut  out  by  a  few  strokes,  solid  for 
the  very  reason  that  they  are  all  of  a  piece ;  the 
complete  characters  whose  fibres  have  never  been 
strained  by  a  doubt ;  the  minds  that  no  questions  dis- 
turb and  no  aspirations  put  out  of  breath,  —  these, 
the  strong,  are  also  the  tyrants.  —  Countess  de  Gas- 
parin. 

There  is  something  among  men  more  capable  of 
shaking  despotic  power  than  lightning,  whirlwind, 
or  earthquake ;  that  is,  the  threatened  indignation 
of  the  whole  civilized  world.  —  Darnel  Webster. 

Destiny. —  The  scape-goat  which  we  make  re- 
sponsible for  all  our  crimes  and  follies ;  a  necessity 
which  we  set  down  for  invincible,  when  we  have  no 
wish  to  strive  against  it.  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

Our  deeds  determine  us,  as  much  as  we  determine 
our  deeds.  —  George  Eliot. 

Detention.  —  Never  hold  any  one  by  the  but- 
ton or  the  hand,  in  order  to  be  heard  out;  for  if 
people  are  unwilling  to  hear  you,  you  had  better 
hold  your  tongue  than  them.  —  Chesterfield. 

Detraction. —  Happy  are  they  that  hear  their 
detractions,  and  can  put  them  to  mending.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

In  some  unlucky  dispositions  there  is  such  an  envi- 
ous kind  of  pride  that  they  cannot  endure  that  any 
but  themselves  should  be  set  forth  for  excellent;  so 
that  when  they  hear  one  justly  praised  they  will 
either  seek  to  dismount  his  virtues,  or,  if  they  be 
like  a  clear  light,  they  will  stab  him  with  a  hut  of 
detraction;  as  if  there  were  something  yet  so  foul 
as  did  obnubilate  even  his  brightest  glory.  When 
their  tongue  cannot  justly  condemn  him,  they  will 
leave  him  suspected  by  their  silence.  —  Feltham. 


DEW  64  DIF 

Dew.  —  That  same  dew,  which  sometimes  with- 
ers buds,  was  wont  to  swell,  like  round  and  orient 
pearls,  stood  now  within  the  pretty  flow'rets'  eyes, 
like  tears,  that  did  their  own  disgrace  bewail.  — 
Shakespeare. 

Earth's  liquid  jewelry,  wrought  of  air. — P.  J. 
Bailey. 

Diet.  —  Regimen  is  better  than  physic.  Every 
one  should  be  his  own  physician.  We  ought  to  as- 
sist, and  not  to  foice  nature  :  but  more  especially 
we  should  learn  to  suffer,  grow  old,  and  die.  Some 
things  are  salutary,  and  others  hurtful.  Eat  with 
moderation  what  you  know  by  experience  agrees 
with  your  constitution.  Nothing  is  good  for  the 
body  but  what  we  can  digest.  Wliat  medicine  can 
procure  digestion  '?  Exercise.  What  wid  recruit 
strength  V  Sleep.  What  will  alleviate  incurable 
evils  V     Patience. — Voltaire. 

Free-Hvers  on  a  small  scale,  who  are  prodigal 
within  the  compass  of  a  guinea.  —  Washington  Irving. 

Difficulties. — The  greatest  difficulties  lie 
where  we  are  not  looking  for  them.  —  Goethe. 

The  weak  sinews  become  strong  by  their  conflict 
with  difficulties.  Hope  is  born  in  the  long  night  of 
watching  and  tears.  Faith  visits  us  in  defeat  and 
disappointment,  amid  the  consciousness  of  earthly 
frailty  and  the  crumbling  tombstones  of  mortality.  — 
Chapin. 

How  strangely  easy  difficult  things  are !  —  Charles^i^ 
Buxton. 

Diffidence.  — Nothing  sinks  a  young  man 
into  low  company,  both  of  women  and  men,  so  surely 
as  timidity  and  diffidence  of  himself.  If  he  thinks 
that  he  shall  not,  he  may  depend  upon  it  he  will  not, 
please.  But  with  proper  endeavors  to  please,  and 
a  degree  of  persuasion  that  he  shall,  it  is  almost 
certain  that  he  will.  —  Chest erjidd. 


DIF  65  DIS 

No  congress,  nor  mob,  nor  guillotine,  nor  fire,  nor 
all  tofjether,  can  avail,  to  cut  out,  burn,  or  destroy 
the  offense  of  superiority  in  persons.  The  superi- 
ority in  him  is  inferiority  in  me.  —  Emerson. 

Dignity .  —  It  is  at  once  the  thinnest  and  most 
effective  of  all  the  coverings  under  which  duncedom 
sneaks  and  skulks.  Most  of  the  men  of  dignity, 
who  awe  or  bore  their  more  genial  brethren,  are 
simply  men  who  possess  the  art  of  passing  off  their 
insensibility  for  wisdom,  their  dullness  for  depth, 
and  of  concealing  imbecility  of  intellect  under  haugh-' 
tiness  of  manner. — Whipple. 

Dirt.  —  "Ignorance,"  says  Ajax,  "is  a  pain- 
less evil;"  so,  I  should  think,  is  dirt,  considering 
the  merry  faces  that  go  along  with  it.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Martin,  if  dirt  was  trumps,  what  hands  you  would 
hold.  —  Lamb. 

Disappointment. — Life  often  seems  like 
a  long  shipwreck,  of  which  the  debris  are  friend- 
ship, glory,  and  love  :  the  shores  of  existence  are 
strewn  with  them.  —  Mme.de  Stael. 

O  world  !  how  many  hopes  thou  dost  engulf  !  — 
Alfred  de  Alusset. 

Thirsting  for  the  golden  fountain  of  the  fable, 
from  how  many  streams  have  we  turned  away, 
weary  and  in  disgust  !  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

We  mortals,  men  and  women,  devour  many  a  dis- 
appointment between  breakfast  and  dinner-time ; 
keep  back  the  tears  and  look  a  little  pale  about  the 
lips,  and  in  answer  to  inquiries  say,  "  Oh,  nothing  !  " 
Pride  helps' us;  and  pride  is  not  a  bad  thing  when 
it  only  urges  us  to  hide  our  own  hurts  —  not  to  hurt 
others.  —  George  Eliot. 

Ah  1  what  seeds  for  a  paradise  I  bore  in  my 
heart,  of  which  birds  of  prey  have  robbed  me. — 
Richter. 

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DIS  66  t)IS 

Discourtesy. —  Discourtesy  does  not  spring 
merely  from  one  bad  quality,  but  from  several, — 
from  foolish  vanity,  from  ij^norance  of  what  is  due 
to  others,  from  indolence,  from  stupidity,  from  dis- 
traction of  thought,  from  contempt  of  others,  from 
jealousy.  —  La  Bruyere. 

Discovery.  —  Through  every  rift  of  discovery 
some  seeming  anomaly  drops  out  of  the  darkness, 
and  falls  as  a  golden  link  in  the  great  chain  of  order. 

—  Chapin. 

Discretion.  —  Be  discreet  in  all  things,  and 
so  render  it  unnecessary  to  be  mysterious  about  any. 

—  Wellington. 

Though  a  man  has  all  other  perfections  and  wants 
discretion,  he  will  be  of  no  great  consequence  in  the 
world;  but  if  he  has  this  single  talent  in  perfection, 
and  but  a  common  share  of  others,  he  may  do  what 
he  pleases  in  his  particular  station  of  life.  —  Addison. 

Dishonesty. —  So  grasping  is  dishonesty  that 
it  is  no  respecter  of  persons:  it  will  cheat  friends  as 
well  as  foes;  and,  were  it  possible,  even  God  him- 
self !  —  Bancroft. 

Dispatch.  —  Use  dispatch.  Remember  that 
the  world  only  took  six  days  to  create.  Ask  me 
for  whatever  you  please  except  time :  that  is  the 
only  thing  which  is  beyond  my  power.  —  Napoleon. 

True  dispatch  is  a  rich  thing  ;  for  time  is  the 
measure  of  business,  as  money  is  of  wares,  and  busi- 
ness is  bought  at  a  dear  hand  where  there  is  small 
dispatch.  —  Bacon, 

Disposition.  —  A  tender-hearted  and  com- 
passionate disposition,  which  inclines  men  to  pity 
and  feel  the  misfortunes  of  others,  and  which  is  even 
for  its  own  sake  incapable  of  involving  any  man  in 
ruin  and  misery,  is  of  all  tempers  of  mind  the  most 
amiable;  and,  though  it  seldom  receives  much  honor, 
is  worthy  of  the  highest.  —  Fielding. 


DIS  67  DRE 

A  good  disposition  is  more  valuable  than  gold ;  for 
the  latter  is  the  gift  of  fortune,  but  the  former  is  the 
dower  of  nature. — Addison. 

Distrust.  —  As  health  lies  in  labor,  and  there 
is  no  royal  road  to  it  but  through  toil,  so  there  is  no 
republican  road  to  safety  but  in  constant  distrust.  — 
Wendell  Phillips. 

What  loneliness  is  more  lonely  than  distrust?  — 
George  Eliot. 

When  desperate  ills  demand  a  speedy  cure,  dis- 
trust is  cowardice,  and  prudence  folly.  —  Johnson. 

Doubt.  —  Remember  Talleyrand's  advice,  "If 
you  are  in  doubt  whether  to  write  a  letter  or  not  — 
don't!  "  The  advice  applies  to  many  doubts  in  life 
besides  that  of  letter  writing.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Doubt  is  hell  in  the  human  soul.  —  Gasparin. 

Doubt  springs  from  the  mind;  faith  is  the  daughter 
of  the  soul.  — /.  Petit  Senn. 

Modest  doubt  is  called  the  beacon  of  the  wise. 
—  Shakespeare. 

The  doubts  of  an  honest  man  contain  more  moral 
truth  than  the  profession  of  faith  of  people  under  a 
worldly  yoke.  — X.  Doudan. 

There  lives  more  faith  in  honest  doubt,  believe 
me,  than  in  half  the  creeds.  —  Tennyson. 

Every  body  drags  its  shadow,  and  every  mind  its 
doubt.  — Victor  Hugo. 

Dreams.  —  Children  of  night,  of  indigestion 
bred.  —  Churchill. 

A  world  of  the  dead  in  the  hues  of  life.  —  Mrs. 
Ilemans. 

The  fickle  pensioners  of  Morpheus'  train. — Milton. 

Dreams  always  go  by  contraries,  my  dear.  —  Sam- 
uel Lover. 


DRE  68  DUT 

We  are  somewhat  more  than  ourselves  in  our 
sleeps,  and  the  slumber  of  the  body  seems  to  be  but 
the  waking  or  the  soul.  It  is  the  litigation  of  sense, 
but  the  liberty  of  reason;  and  our  waking  concep- 
tions do  not  match  the  fancies  of  our  sleeps.  —  ^ir 
T.  Browne. 

The  mockery  of  unquiet  slumbers.  —  Shakespeare. 

Like  a  dog,  he  hunts  in  dreams.  —  Tennyson, 

Dress.  —  It  is  well  known  that  a  loose  and  easy 
dress  contributes  much  to  give  to  both  sexes  those 
fine  proportions  of  body  that  are  observable  in  the 
Grecian  statues,  and  which  serve  as  models  to  our 
present  artists.  —  Rousseau. 

Duty.  —  Stern  daughter  of  the  voice  of  God.  — 

Wordsworth. 

Duty  is  a  power  which  rises  with  us  in  the  morn- 
ing and  goes  to  rest  with  us  at  night.  It  is  coexten- 
sive with  the  action  of  our  intelligence.  It  is  the 
shadow  which  cleaves  to  us,  go  where  we  will,  and 
which  only  leaves  us  when  we  leave  the  light  of  life. 
—  Gladstone. 

Let  us  hear  the  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter  : 
Fear  God  and  keep  his  commandments;  for  this  is 
the  whole  duty  of  man.  —  Bible. 

The  idea  of  duty,  that  recognition  of  something  to 
be  lived  for  beyond  the  mere  satisfaction  of  self,  is 
to  the  moral  life  what  the  addition  of  a  great  cen- 
tral ganglion  is  to  animal  life. —  George  Eliot. 

Do  the  duty  which  lies  nearest  to  thee.  —  Goethe. 

Those  who  do  it  always  would  as  soon  think  of 
being  conceited  of  eating  their  dinner  as  of  doing 
their  duty.  What  honest  boy  would  pride  himself 
on  not  picking  a  pocket?  A  thief  who  was  trying  to 
reform  would,  —  George  MacDonald. 

To  what  gulfs  a  single  deviation  from  the  track 
of  human  duties  leads !  —  Byron. 


DUT  69  EAR 

The  duty  of  man  is  not  a  wilderness  of  turnpike 
gates,  through  which  he  is  to  pass  by  tickets  from 
one  to  the  other.  It  is  plain  and  simple,  and  con- 
sists but  of  two  points  :  his  duty  to  God,  which 
every  man  must  feel;  and,  with  respect  to  his 
neighbor,  to  do  as  he  would  be  done  by.  —  Thomas 
Paine. 

There  is  not  a  moment  without  some  duty.  —  Cic' 
ero. 

If  doing  what  ought  to  be  done  be  made  the  first 
business,  and  success  a  secondary  consideration,  — 
is  not  this  the  way  to  exalt  virtue?  —  Confucius. 

The  path  of  duty  lies  in  what  is  near,  and  men' 
seek  for  it  in  what  is  remote;  the  work  of  duty  lies 
in  what  is  easy,  and  men  seek  for  it  in  what  is  diffi- 
cult. —  Mencius. 

Duty  does  not  consist  in  suffering  everything,  but 
in  suffering  everything  for  duty.  Sotnetiuies,  in- 
deed, it  is  our  duty  not  to  suffer.  —  Dr.  Vinet. 

He  who  is  false  to  present  duty  breaks  a  thread 
in  the  loom,  and  will  find  the  flaw  when  he  may 
have  forgotten  its  cause.  —  Beecher. 

The  primal  duties  shine  aloft,  like  stars;  the  char- 
ities that  soothe,  and  heal,  and  bless,  are  scattered 
at  the  feet  of  man,  like  flowers.  —  Wordsworth. 

Can  man  or  woman  choose  duties?  No  more  than 
they  can  choose  their  birthplace,  or  their  father  and 
mother.  —  George  Eliot. 


E. 

Ear .  —  A  side  intelligencer.  —  Lamb. 

Eyes  and  ears,  two  traded  pilots  'twixt  the 
dangerous  shores  of  will  and  judgment.  —  Shake- 
speare. 


EAR  70  ECO 

The  wicket  of  the  soul.  —  Sir  J.  Davies. 
The  road  to  the  heart.  — Voltaire. 

Early-rising.  —  Early-rising  not  only  gives 
us  more  life  in  the  same  number  of  our  years,  but 
adds  likewise  to  their  number;  and  not  only  enables 
us  to  enjoy  more  of  existence  in  the  same  measure  of 
time,  but  increases  also  the  measure.  —  Colton. 

The  famous  ApoUonius  being  very  early  at  Ves- 
pasian's gate,  and  finding  him  stirring,  from  thence 
conjectured  that  he  was  worthy  to  govern  an  em- 
pire, and  said  to  his  companion,  "  This  man  surely 
will  be  emperor,  he  is  so  early."  —  Causdn. 

When  one  begins  to  turn  in  bed,  it  is  time  to  get 
up.  — Wellington. 

The  difference  between  rising  at  five  and  seven 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  for  the  space  of  forty  years, 
supposing  a  man  to  go  to  bed  at  the  same  hour  at 
night,  is  nearly  equivalent  to  the  addition  of  ten 
years  to  a  man's  lite.  — Doddridge. 

Whoever  has  tasted  the  breath  of  morning  knows 
that  the  most  invigorating  and  most  delightful  hours 
of  the  day  are  commonly  spent  in  bed;  though  it  is 
the  evident  intention  of  nature  that  we  should  enjoy 
and  profit  by  them.  —  Southey. 

Economy.  —  Economy  is  half  the  battle  of 
life;  it  is  not  so  hard  to  earn  money  as  to  spend  it 
well.  —  Spurgeon. 

Ere  fancy  you  consult,  consult  your  purse.  — 
Franklin. 

I  can  get  no  remedy  against  this  consumption  of 
the  purse;  borrowing  only  lingers  and  lingers  it  out; 
but  the  disease  is  incurable.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  back-door  robs  the  house.  —  George  Herbert. 

The  world  abhors  closeness,  and  all  but  admires 
extravagance.  Yet  a  slack  hand  shows  weakness,  a 
tight  hand,  strength.  —  Charles  Buxton. 


EDU  71  EDU 

Education.  —  Education  gives  fecundity  of 
thought,  copiousness  of  illustration,  quickness,  vigor, 
fancy,  words,  images,  and  illustrations  ;  it  decorates 
every  common  thing,  and  gives  the  power  of  trifling 
without  being  undignified  and  absurd.  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

Still  I  am  learning.  — Motto  of  Michael  Angela. 

If  we  work  upon  marble,  it  will  perish;  if  we  work 
upon  brass,  time  will  efface  it;  if  we  rear  temples, 
they  will  crumble  into  dust;  but  if  we  work  upon 
immortal  minds,  if  we  imbue  them  with  principles, 
with  the  just  fear  of  God  and  love  of  our  fellow-men, 
we  engrave  on  those  tablets  something  which  will 
brighten  to  all  eternity.  —  Daniel  Webster. 

The  education  of  life  perfects  the  thinking  mind, 
but  depraves  the  frivolous.  —  Mme.  de  Stael. 

What  sculpture  is  to  a  block  of  marble,  educa- 
tion is  tq  a  human  soul.  The  philosopher,  the  saint, 
and  the  hero, — the  wise,  the  good,  and  the  great 
man,  very  often  lie  hid  and  concealed  in  a  plebeian, 
which  a  proper  education  might  have  disinterred 
and  brought  to  light.  — Addison. 

Very  few  men  are  wise  by  their  own  counsel,  or 
learned  by  their  own  teaching  ;  for  he  that  was  only 
taught  by  himself  had  a  fool  to  his  master.  —  Ben 
Jonson. 

I  am  always  for  getting  a  boy  forward  in  his  learn- 
ing, for  that  is  sure  good.  I  would  let  him  at  first 
read  any  English  book  which  happens  to  engage  his 
attention ;  because  you  have  done  a  great  deal  when 
you  have  brought  him  to  have  entertainment  from  a 
book.  He  '11  get  better  books  afterwards.  —  John- 
son. 

The  essential  difference  between  a  good  and  a  bad 
education  is  this,  that  the  former  draws  on  the 
child  to  learn  by  making  it  sweet  to  him;  the  latter 
drives  the  child  to  learn,  by  making  it  sour  to  him 
if  he  does  not.  —  Charles  Buxton. 


EDU  72  EMO 

Nothing  so  good  as  a  university  education,  nor 
worse  than  a  university  without  its  education.  — 
Buhuer-Lytton. 

Education  is  all  paint:  it  does  not  alter  the  nature 
of  the  wood  that  is  under  it,  it  only  improves  its  ap- 
pearance a  little.  Why  I  dislike  education  so  much 
is  that  it  makes  all  people  alike,  until  you  have  ex- 
amined into  them  ;  and  it  is  sometimes  so  long  be- 
fore you  get  to  see  under  the  varnish! — Lady  Hester 
Stanhope. 

Eloquence.  —  The  poetry  of  speech.  —  Byron. 

This  is  that  eloquence  the  ancients  represented  as 
lightning,  bearing  down  every  opposer;  this  the 
power  which  has  turned  whole  assemblies  into  aston- 
ishment, admiration,  and  awe ;  that  is  described  by 
the  torrent,  the  flame,  and  every  other  instance  of 
irresistible  impetuosity.  —  Goldsmith. 

Eminence.  —  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that  the 
road  to  eminence  and  power  from  an  obscure  condi- 
tion ought  not  to  be  made  too  easy,  nor  a  thing  too 
much  of  course.  If  rare  merit  be  the  rarest  of  all 
jthings,  it  ought  to  pass  through  some  sort  of  proba- 
tion. The  Temple  of  Honor  ought  to  be  seated  on 
an  eminence.  If  it  be  open  through  virtue,  let  it  be 
remembered,  too,  that  virtue  is  never  tried  but  by 
some  difficulty  and  some  struggle.  —  Burke. 

Emotions.  —  All  loving  emotions,  like  plants, 
shoot  up  most  rapidly  in  the  tempestuous  atmos- 
phere of  life.  —  Hichier. 

Emotion  has  no  value  in  the  Christian  system 
save  as  it  stands  connected  with  right  conduct  as  the 
cause  of  it.  Emotion  is  the  bud,  not  the  flower,  and 
never  is  it  of  value  until  it  expands  into  a  flower. 
Every  religious  sentiment ;  every  act  of  devotion 
which  does  not  produce  a  corresponding  elevation 
of  life,  is  worse  than  useless ;  it  is  absolutely  per- 
nicious, because  it  ministers  to  self-deception  and 
tends  to  lower  the  line  of  personal  morals.  —  W.  H. 
H.  Murray. 


EMO  73  ENE 

There  are  three  orders  of  emotions:  those  of 
pleasure,  which  refer  to  the  senses ;  those  of  har- 
mony, which  refer  to  the  mind;  and  those  of  happi- 
ness, which  are  the  natural  result  of  a  union  between 
harmony  and  pleasure.  —  Chapone. 

Emotion,  whether  of  ridicule,  anger,  or  sorrow; 
whether  raised  at  a  puppet-show,  a  funeral,  or  a  bat- 
tle, is  your  grandest  of  levelers.  The  man  who 
would  be  always  superior  should  be  always  apathetic. 

—  Bulwer-Lytion. 

Employment.  —  The  wise  prove,  and  the 
foolish  confess,  by  their  conduct,  that  a  life  of  em- 
ployment is  the  only  life  worth  leading.  — Paley. 

Life  will  frequently  languish,  even  in  the  hands 
of  the  busy,  if  they  have  not  some  employment  sub- 
sidiary to  that  which  forms  their  main  pursuit.  — 
Blair. 

Emulation.  —  Emulation  embalms  the  dead; 
envy,  the  vampire,  blasts  the  living.  —  Fuseli. 

Enemies.  —  It  is  the  enemy  whom  we  do  not 
suspect  who  is  the  most  dangerous.  —  Rojas. 

Energy.  —  The  longer  I  live,  the  more  deeply 
am  I  convinced  that  that  which  makes  the  difference 
between  one  man  and  another —  between  the  weak 
and  powerful,  the  great  and  insignificant  —  is  energy, 
invincible  determination;  a  purpose  once  formed, 
and  then  death  or  victory.  This  quality  will  do 
anything  that  is  to  be  done  in  the  world  ;  and  no 
two-legged  creature  can  become  a  man  without  it. 

—  Charles  Buxion. 

The  truest  wisdom  is  a  resolute  determination.  — 
Napoleon. 

To  think  we  are  able  is  almost  to  be  so  ;  to  deter- 
mine upon  attainment  is  frequently  attainment  it- 
self. Thus  earnest  resolution  has  often  seemed  to 
have  about  it  almost  a  savor  of  omnipotence.  —  Sam- 
uel Smiles, 


ENE  74  ■     ENT 

Oh !  for  a  forty  parson  power.  —  Byron. 

Daniel  Webster  struck  me  much  like  a  steam-en- 
gine in  trousers.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

This  world  belongs  to  the  energetic.  —  Emerson. 

Enjoyment.  —  Whatever  advantage  we  snatch 
beyond  the  certain  portion  allotted  us  by  nature  is 
like  money  spent  before  it  is  due,  which  at  the  time 
of  regular  payment  will  be  missed  and  regretted.  — 
Johnson. 

Ennui.  —  I  have  also  seen  the  world,  and  after 
long  experience  have  discovered  that  ennui  is  our 
greatest  enemy,  and  remunerative  labor  our  most 
lasting  friend.  —  Moser. 

I  am  wrapped  in  dismal  thinking.  —  Shakespeare. 

Enthusiasm.  —  Enthusiasts  soon  understand 
each  other.  —  Washington  Irving. 

Enthusiasm  is  an  evil  much  less  to  be  dreaded 
than  superstition.  Superstition  is  the  disease  of  na- 
tions; enthusiasm,  that  of  individuals:  the  former 
grows  inveterate  by  time,  the  latter  is  cured  by  it. 
—  Rohert  Hall. 

"Enthusiasm  is  that  temper  of  mind  in  which  the 
imagination  has  got  the  better  of  the  judgment. — 
Warhurton. 

Great  designs  are  not  accomplished  without  en- 
thusiasm of  some  sort.  It  is  the  inspiration  of  every- 
thing great.  Without  it,  no  man  is  to  be  feared, 
and  with  it  none  despised. — Bovee. 

Enthusiasm  is  supernatural*  serenity.  —  Thoreau. 

A  man  conscious  of  enthusiasm  for  worthy  aims  is 
sustained  under  petty  hostilities  by  the  memory  of 
great  workers  who  had  to  fight  their  way  not  with- 
out wounds,  and  who  hover  in  his  mind  as  patron 
saints,  invisibly  helping.  —  George  Eliot. 

The  insufficient  passions  of  a  soul  expanding  to 
celestial  limits.  —  Sydney  Dobell, 


ENV  75  EQU 

Envy. —  Am  an  who  hath  no  virtue  in  himself 
ever  envieth  virtue  in  others;  for  men's  minds  will 
either  feed  upon  their  own  good,  or  upon  others' 
evil ;  and  who  wanteth  the  one  will  prey  upon  the 
other.  —  Lord  Bacon. 

Pining  and  sickening  at  another's  joy.  —  Ovid. 

Many  passions  dispose  us  to  depress  and  vilify  the 
merit  of  one  rising  in  the  esteem  of  mankind.  — Ad- 
dison. 

He  who  surpasses  or  subdues  mankind  must  look 
down  on  the  hate  of  those  below.  —  Byron. 

An  envious  fever  of  pale  and  bloodless  emulation. 
—  Shakespeare. 

Equality.  —  'SVliether  I  be  the  grandest  ge- 
nius on  earth  in  a  single  thing,  and  that  single  thing 
earthy,  or  the  jjoor  peasant  who,  behind  his  plow, 
whistles  for  want  of  thought,  1  strongly  suspect  it 
will  be  all  one  when  I  pass  to  the  Competitive  Ex- 
amination yonder!  On  the  other  side  of  the  grave 
a  Raffael's  occupation  may  be  gone  as  well  as  a 
plowman's.  —  Bulwer-Lylton. 

All  the  religions  known  in  the  world  are  founded, 
so  far  as  they  relate  to  man,  or  the  unity  of  man,  as 
being  all  of  one  degree,  \yhether  in  heaven  or  in 
hell,  or  in  whatever  state  man  may  be  supposed  to 
exist  hereafter,  the  good  and  the  bad  are  the  only 
distinctions.  —  Thomas  Paine. 

By  the  law  of  God,  given  by  him  to  humanity, 
all  men  are  free,  are  brothers,  and  are  equals.  — 
Mnzzini. 

The  circle  of  life  is  cut  up  into  segments.  All 
lines  are  equal  if  they  are  drawn  from  the  centre  and 
touch  the  circumference.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Liberty  and  equality,  lovely  and  sacred  words!  — 
3Iazzini. 

Society  is  a  more  level  surface  than  we  imagine. 
Wise  men  or  absolute  fools  are  hard  to  be  met  with, 
as  there  are  few  giants  or  dwarfs.  — Hazlilt. 


EQU  76  ERR 

Equanimity.  —  A  thing  often  lost,  but  sel- 
dom found.  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

Error.  —  If  those  alone  who  "  sowed  the  wind 
did  reap  the  whirlwind,"  it  would  he  well.  But 
the  mischief  is  that  the  blindness  of  bigotry,  the 
madness  of  ambition,  and  the  miscalculations  of  di- 
plomacy seek  their  victims  principally  amongst  the 
innocent  and  the  unoffending.  The  cottage  is  sure 
to  suffer  for  every  error  of  the  court,  the  cabinet,  or 
the  camp.  When  error  sits  in  the  seat  of  power 
and  of  authority,  and  is  generated  in  high  places,  it 
may  be  compared  to  that  torrent  which  originates 
indeed  in  the  mountain,  but  commits  its  devastation 
in  the  vale.  —  Colton. 

There  is  a  brotherhood  of  error  as  close  as  the 
brotherhood  of  truth.  —  Argyll. 

Errors  look  so  very  ugly  in  persons  of  small  means, 
one  feels  they  are  taking  quite  a  liberty  in  going 
astray  ;  whereas  people  of  fortune  may  naturally  in- 
dulge in  a  few  delinquencies.  —  George  Eliot. 

Our  follies  and  errors  are  the  soiled  steps  to  the 
Grecian  temple  of  our  perfection.  —  Richter. 

But  for  my  part,  my  lord,  I  then  thought,  and  am 
still  of  the  same  opinion,  that  error,  and  not  truth 
of  any  kind,  is  dangerous  ;  that  ill  conclusions  can 
only  flow  from  false  propositions ;  and  that,  to  know 
whether  any  proposition  be  true  or  false,  it  is  a  pre- 
posterous method  to  examine  it  by  its  apparent  con- 
sequences. —  Burke. 

Error  in  itself  is  always  invisible ;  its  nature  is 
the  absence  of  light.  —  Jacohi. 

There  is  no  place  where  weeds  do  not  grow,  and 
there  is  no  heart  where  errors  are  not  to  be  found. 
—  J.  S.  Knowles. 

Our  understandings  are  always  liable  to  error; 
nature  and  certainty  is  very  hard  to  come  at,  and 
infallibility  is  mere  vanity  and  pretense.  —  Marcus 
Antoninus, 


ERR  77  ETI 

Let  error  be  an  infirmity  and  not  a  crime. —  Caste- 
lar. 

Errors  such  as  are  but  acorns  in  our  younger 
brows  grow  oaks  in  our  older  beads,  and  become  in- 
flexible. —  Sir  Thomas  Browne. 

Erudition.  —  'Tis  of  great  importance  to  the 
honor  of  learning  that  men  of  business  should  know 
erudition  is  not  like  a  lark,  which  flies  high,  and  de- 
lights in  nothing  but  singing ;  but  that  't  is  rather 
like  a  hawk,  which  soars  aloft  indeed,  but  can  stoop 
when  she  finds  it  convenient,  and  seize  her  prey.  — 
Bacon. 

Estimation.  —  A  life  spent  worthily  should 
be  measured  by  a  nobler  line,  — by  deeds,  not  years. 

—  Sheridan. 

To  judge  of  the  real  importance  of  an  individual, 
one  should  think  of  the  effect  his  death  would  pro- 
duce. —  Leves. 

Eternity.  —  Upon  laying  a  weight  in  one  of 
the  scales,  inscribed  eternity,  though  I  threw  in  that 
of  time,  prosperity,  affliction,  wealth,  and  poverty, 
which  seemed  very  ponderous,  they  were  not  able 
to  stir  the  opposite  balance.  —  Addison. 

Eternity  is  a  negative  idea  clothed  with  a  positive 
name.  It  supposes  in  that  to  which  it  is  applied  a 
present  existence;  and  is  the  negation  of  a  beginning 
or  of  an  end  of  that  existence.  —  Paley. 

Etiquette.  —  Whoever  pays  a  visit  that  is 
not  desired,  or  talks  longer  than  the  listener  is  will- 
ing to  attend,  is  guilty  of  an  injury  that  he  cannot 
repair,  and  takes  away  that  which  he  cannot  give. 

—  Johnson. 

The  forms  required  by  good  breeding,  or  pre- 
scribed by  authority,  are  to  be  observed  in  social  or 
official  life. — Prescott. 

Good  taste  rejects  excessive  nicety;  it  treats  little 
things  as  little  things,  and  is  not  hurt  by  them.^ — 
Fenelon. 


ETI  78  EVI 

The  law  of  the  table  is  beauty,  a  respect  to  the 
common  soul  of  the  guests.  Everything  is  unrea- 
sonable which  is  private  to  two  or  three,  or  any  por- 
tion of  the  company.  Tact  never  violates  for  a 
moment  this  law;  never  intrudes  the  orders  of  the 
house,  the  vices  of  the  absent,  or  a  tariff  of  ex- 
penses, or  professional  privacies;  as  we  say,  we  never 
"  talk  shop  "  before  company.  Lovers  abstain  from 
caresses,  and  haters  from  insults,  while  they  sit  in 
one  parlor  with  common  friends.  —  Emerson. 

Events.  —  Man  reconciles  himself  to  almost 
any  event  however  trying,  if  it  happens  in  the  or- 
dinary course  of  nature.  It  is  the  extraordinary 
alone  that  he  rebels  against.  There  is  a  moral  idea 
associated  with  this  feeling;  for  the  extraordinary 
appears  to  be  something  like  an  injustice  of  Heaven. 

—  Humboldt. 

There  can  be  no  peace  in  human  life  without  the 
contempt  of  all  events.  He  that  troubles  his  head 
with  drawing  consequences  from  mere  contingencies 
shall  never  be  at  rest.  —  L^ Estrange. 

Evil.  —  Evil  is  in  antagonism  with  the  entire 
creation.  —  Zschokke. 

Even  in  evil,  that  dark  cloud  which  hangs  over  the 
creation,  we  discern  rays  of  light  and  hope;  and 
gradually  come  to  see  in  suffering  and  temptation 
proofs  and  instruments  of  the  sublimest  purposes  of 
wisdom  and  love.  —  Channing. 

Be  not  overcome  of  evil,  but  overcome  evil  with 
good.  —  Bible. 

If  we  will  rightly  estimate  what  we  call  good 
and  evil,  we  shall  find  it  lies  much  in  comparison. 

—  Locke. 

Not  one  false  man  but  does  uncountable  evil.  — 
Carlyle. 

This  is  the  course  of  every  evil  deed,  that,  prop- 
agating still,  it  brings  forth  evil.  —  Coleridge. 


EVI  79  EXC 

The  truly  virtuous  do  not  easily  credit  evil  that  is 
told  them  of  their  neighbors;  for  if  others  may  do 
amiss,  then  may  these  also  speak  amiss:  man  is  frail, 
and  prone  to  evil,  and  therefore  may  soon  fail  in 
words.  —  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Physical  evils  destroy  themselves,  or  they  destroy 
us.  —  Rousseau. 

"  One  soweth,  and  another  reapeth,"  is  a  verity 
that  applies  to  evil  as  well  as  good.  —  George  Eliot. 

If  you  believe  in  evil,  you  have  done  evil.  —  A. 
de  Musset. 

Example.  —  We  are  all  of  us  more  or  less 
echoes,  repeating  involuntarily  the  virtues,  the  de- 
fects, the  movements,  and  the  characters  of  those 
among  whom  we  live.  — Jouhert. 

How  far  that  little  candle  throws  its  beams !  So 
shines  a  good  deed  in  a  naughty  world.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Every  great  example  takes  hold  of  us  with  the 
authority  of  a  miracle,  and  says  to  us:  "If  ye  had 
but  faith,  ye  could  also  be  able  to  do  the  things  which 
I  do."  —  Jacohi. 

Excellence.  —  Nothing  is  such  an  obstacle  to 
the  production  of  excellence  as  the  power  of  produc- 
ing what  is  good  with  ease  and  rapidity.  — Aikin. 

Excelsior.  —  Man's  life  is  in  the  impulse  of 
elevation  to  something  higher. — Jacohi. 

Excess. — Too  much  noise  deafens  us;  too 
much  light  blinds  us;  too  great  a  distance  or  too 
much  of  proximity  equally  prevents  us  from  being 
able  to  see;  too  long  and  too  short  a  discourse  ob- 
scures our  knowledge  of  a  subject;  too  much  of  truth 
stuns  us.  —  Pascal. 

O  fleeting  joys  of  Paradise,  dear  bought  with  last- 
ing woes.  —  Milton. 


EXC  80  EXP 

Excess  generally  causes  reaction,  and  produces  a 
change  in  the  opposite  direction,  whether  it  be  in 
the  seasons,  or  in  individuals,  or  in  governments.  — 
Plato. 

Excitement. — There  is  always  something 
interesting  and  beautiful  about  a  universal  popular 
excitement  of  a  generous  character,  let  the  object  of 
it  be  what  it  may.  The  great  desiring  heart  of  man, 
surging  with  one  strong,  sympathetic  swell,  even 
though  it  be  to  break  on  the  beach  of  life  and  fall 
backwards,  leaving  the  sands  as  barren  as  before, 
has  yet  a  meaning  and  a  power  in  its  restlessness 
with  which  I  must  deeply  sympathize.  —  Mrs.  Stowe. 

Violent  excitement  exhausts  the  mind,  and  leaves 
it  withered  and  sterile.  —  Fenelon. 

The  language  of  excitement  is  at  best  but  pictur- 
esque merely.  You  must  be  calm  before  you  can 
utter  oracles.  —  Thoreau. 

This  is  so  engraven  on  our  nature  that  it  may  be 
regarded  as  an  appetite.  Like  all  other  appetites,  it 
is  not  sinful,  unless  indulged  unlawfully,  or  to  ex- 
cess. —  Dr.  Guthrie. 

Excuse.  —  Of  vain  things,  excuses  are  the 
vainest.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Expectation.  —  'Tis  expectation  makes  a 
blessing  dear  ;  heaven  were  not  heaven,  if  we  knew 
what  it  were.  —  Suckling. 

It  may  be  proper  for  all  to  remember  that  they 
ought  not  to  raise  expectations  which  it  is  not  in 
their  power  to  satisfy;  and  that  it  is  more  pleasing 
to  see  smoke  brightening  into  flame,  than  flame  sink- 
ing into  smoke.  — Johnson. 

Expediency.  —  When  private  virtue  is  haz- 
arded upon  the  perilous  cast  of  expediency,  the  pil- 
lars of  the  republic,  however  apparent  their  stabiUty, 
are  infected  with  decay  at  the  very  centre. — Chopin. 


EXP  81  EXT 

Men  in  responsible  situations  cannot,  like  those 
in  private  life,  be  governed  solely  by  the  dictates 
of  their  own  inclinations,  or  by  such  motives  as  can 
only  affect  themselves.  —  Washington. 

Experience.  — Life  consists  in  the  alternate 
process  of  learning  and  unlearning  ;  but  it  is  often 
wiser  to  unlearn  than  to  learn.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Experience,  the  shroud  of  illusions.  —  De  Finod. 

To  have  a  true  idea  of  man,  or  of  life,  one  miist 
have  stood  himself  on  the  brink  of  suicide,  or  on  the 
door-sill  of  insanity,  at  least  once.  —  Taine. 

What  we  learn  with  pleasure  we  never  forget. — 
Alfred  Mercier. 

Who  would  venture  upon  the  journey  of  life,  if 
compelled  to  begin  it  at  the  end?  —  Mme.  de  Main- 
tenon. 

Experience  is  the  extract  of  suffering. — Arthur 
Helps. 

Every  generous  illusion  adds  a  wrinkle  in  vanish- 
ing. Experience  is  the  successive  disenchantment 
of  the  things  of  life.  It  is  reason  enriched  by  the 
spoils  of  the  heart.  —  J.  Petit  Senn. 

Extravagance.  —  Expenses  are  not  rectilin- 
ear, but  circular.  Every  inch  you  add  to  the  diameter 
adds  three  to  the  circumference.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Extremes.  —  Extremes  are  dangerous ;  a  mid- 
dle estate  is  safest  ;  as  a  middle  temper  of  the  sea, 
between  a  still  calm  and  a  violent  tempest,  is  most 
helpful  to  convey  the  mariner  to  his  haven.  —  Swin- 
nock. 

Superlatives  are  diminutives,  and  weaken.  — Em- 
erson. 

Extremes  are  for  us  as  if  they  were  not,  and  as  if 
we  were  not  in  regard  to  them;  they  escape  from  us, 
or  we  from  them.  —  Pascal. 


EYE  82  FAC 

Eye.  —  Stabbed  with  a  white  wench's  black 
eye.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  eyes  of  a  man  are  of  no  use  without  the  ob- 
serving power.  Telescopes  and  microscopes  are 
cunning  contrivances,  but  they  cannot  see  of  them- 
selves. —  Paxlon  Hood. 

Ladies,  whose  bright  eyes  rain  influence.  — Milton. 

Where  is  any  author  in  the  world  teaches  such 
beauty  as  a  woman's  eye?  —  Shakespeare. 

Let  every  eye  negotiate  for  itself  and  trust  no 
agent.  —  Shakespeare. 

Her  eyes  are  homes  of  silent  prayer.  —  Tennyson. 

The  eyes  have  one  language  everywhere. — George 
Herbert. 

Glances  are  the  first  billets-doux  of  love.  —  Ninon 
de  VEnclos. 

F. 

Face. — A  February  face,  so  full  of  frost,  of 
storms,  and  cloudiness.  —  Shakespeare. 

Demons  in  act,  but  gods  at  least  in  face.  —  Byron. 

A  girl  of  eighteen  imagines  the  feelings  behind 
the  face  that  has  moved  her  with  its  sympathetic 
youth,  as  easily  as  primitive  people  imagined  the 
humors  of  the  gods  in  fair  weather  :  what  is  she  to 
believe  in,  if  not  in  this  vision  woven  from  within? 
—  George  Eliot. 

The  worst  of  faces  still  is  a  human  face.  —  Lavater. 

Fact.  —  There  should  always  be  some  founda- 
tion of  fact  for  the  most  airy  fabric,  and  pure  in- 
vention is  but  the  talent  of  a  deceiver.  — Byron. 

Every  day  of  my  life  makes  me  feel  more  and 
more  how  seldom  a  fact  is  accurately  stated:  how  al- 
most invariably  when  a  story  has  passed  through  the 


FAC  83  FAI 

mind  of  a  third  person  it  becomes,  so  far  as  regards 
the  impression  that  it  makes  in  further  repetitions, 
little  better  than  a  falsehood;  and  this,  too,  thoutrh 
the  narrator  be  the  most  truth-seeking  person  in 
existence.  —  Hawthorne. 

Faction.  —  A  feeble  government  produces  more 
factions  than  an  oppressive  one.  —  Fisher  Ames. 

It  is  the  demon  of  discord  armed  with  the  power 
to  do  endless  mischief,  and  intent  alone  on  destroy- 
ing whatever  opposes  its  progress.  —  Crabbe. 

Failure.  —  But  screw  your  courage  to  the  stick- 
ing-place,  and  we  '11  not  fail!  —  Shakespeare. 

Albeit  failure  in  any  cause  produces  a  correspond- 
ent misery  in  the  soul,  yet  it  is,  in  a  sense,  the  high- 
way to  success,  inasmuch  as  every  discovery  of  what 
is  false  leads  us  to  seek  earnestly  after  what  is  true, 
and  every  fresh  experience  points  out  some  form  of 
error  which  we  shall  afterward  carefully  eschew.  — 
Keats. 

Every  failure  is  a  step  to  success;  every  detec- 
tion of  what  is  false  directs  us  toward  what  is  true; 
every  trial  exhausts  some  tempting  form  of  error. 
Not  only  so,  but  scarcely  any  attempt  is  entirely 
a  failure;  scarcely  any  theory,  the  result  of  steady 
thought,  is  altogether  false;  no  tempting  form  of  error 
is  without  some  latent  charm  derived  from  truth.  — 
Whewell. 

Faith.  —  In  affairs  of  this  world  men  are  saved 
not  by  faith  but  by  the  want  of  it.  —  Fielding. 

All  the  scholastic  scaffolding  falls,  as  a  ruined 
edifice,  before  one  single  word, — faith.  —  Napoleon. 

O  welcome  pure-eyed  Faith,  white-handed  Hope, 
thou  hovering  angel,  girt  with  golden  wings!  —  Mil- 
ton. 

Life  grows  dark  as  we  go  on,  till  only  one  clear 
light  is  left  shining  on  it,  and  that  is  faith.  —  Mad- 
ame Swetchine. 


FAI  84  FAL 

When  my  reason  is  afloat,  my  faith  cannot  long 
remain  in  suspense,  and  I  believe  in  God  as  firmly 
as  in  any  other  truth  whatever;  in  short,  a  thousand 
motives  draw  me  to  the  consolatory  side,  and  add 
the  weight  of  hope  to  the  equilibrium  of  reason.  — 
Rousseau. 

Flatter  not  thyself  in  thy  faith  to  God,  if  thou 
wantest  charity  for  thy  neighbor  ;  and  think  not  thou 
hast  charity  for  thy  neighbor,  if  thou  wantest  faith 
to  God:  where  they  are  not  both  together,  they  are 
both  wanting  ;  they  are  both  dead  if  once  divided. 
—  Quarles. 

We  cannot  live  on  probabilities.  The  faith  in 
which  we  can  live  bravely  and  die  in  peace  must  be 
a  certainty,  so  far  as  it  professes  to  be  a  faith  at  all, 
or  it  is  nothing.  —  Froude. 

The  great  desire  of  this  age  is  for  a  doctrine 
which  may  serve  to  condense  our  knowledge,  guide 
our  researches,  and  shape  our  lives,  so  that  conduct 
may  really  be  the  consequence  of  belief.  —  G.  H, 
Lewes. 

Falsehood.  —  Falsehood,  like  a  drawing  in 
perspective,  will  not  bear  to  be  examined  in  every 
point  of  view,  because  it  is  a  good  imitation  of  truth, 
as  a  perspective  is  of  the  reality. —  Collon. 

Do  not  let  us  lie  at  all.  Do  not  think  of  one  fal- 
sity as  harmless,  and  another  as  slight,  and  another 
as  unintended.  Cast  them  all  aside:  they  may  be 
light  and  accidental,  but  they  are  ugly  soot  from  the 
smoke  of  the  pit,  for  all  that:  and  it  is  better  that 
our  hearts  should  be  swept  clean  of  them,  without 
one  care  as  to  which  is  largest  or  blackest.  —  Ruskin. 

It  is  more  from  carelessness  about  the  truth,  than 
from  intentional  lying,  that  there  is  so  much  false- 
hood in  the  world.  — Johnson. 

Falsehood  and  fraud  shoot  up  in  every  soil,  the 
product  of  all  climes.  —  Addipon. 


FAL  85  FAM 

Kound  dealing  is  the  honor  of  man's  nature;  and 
a  mixture  of  falsehood  is  like  alloy  in  gold  and  sil- 
ver, which  may  make  the  metal  work  the  better,  but 
it  embaseth  it.  —  Lord  Bacon. 

To  lapse  in  fullness  is  sorer  than  to  lie  for  need: 
and  falsehood  is  worse  in  king  than  beggar.  —  Shake^ 
speare. 

A  liar  would  be  brave  toward  God,  while  he  is  a 
coward  toward  men;  for  a  lie  faces  God,  and  shrinks 
from  man.  —  Montaigne. 

The  dull  flat  falsehood  serves  for  policy,  and  in 
the  cunning,  truth  's  itself  a  lie.  — Pope. 

No  falsehood  can  endure  touch  of  celestial  temper 
but  returns  of  force  to  its  own  likeness.  — Milton. 

Figures  themselves,  in  their  symmetrical  and  inex- 
orable order,  have  their  mistakes  like  words  and 
speeches.  An  hour  of  pleasure  and  an  hour  of  pain 
are  alike  only  on  the  dial  in  their  numerical  arrange- 
ment.    Outside  the  dial  they  lie  sixty  times.  —  Mery, 

Fame .  —  Fame,  as  a  river,  is  narrowest  where  it 
is  bred,  and  broadest  afar  off;  so  exemplary  writers 
depend  not  upon  the  gratitude  of  the  world.  —  Dave- 
nant. 

Grant  me  honest  fame,  or  grant  me  none.  — Pope. 

Much  of  reputation  depends  on  the  period  in 
which  it  rises.  The  Italians  proverbially  observe 
that  one  half  of  fame  depends  on  that  cause.  In 
dark  periods,  when  talents  appear  they  shine  like 
the  sun  through  a  small  hole  in  the  window-shutter. 
The  strong  beam  dazzles  amid  the  surrounding 
gloom.  Open  the  shutter,  and  the  general  diffu- 
sion of  light  attracts  no  notice.  —  Walpole. 

Fame  confers  a  rank  above  that  of  gentleman  and 
of  kings.  As  soon  as  she  issues  her  patent  of 
nobility,  it  matters  not  a  straw  whether  the  recipient 
be  the  son  of  a  Bourbon  or  of  a  tallow-chandler.  — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 


FAM  86  TAM 

One  Caesar  lives,  —  a  thousand  are  forgot! — Young. 

Few  people  make  much  noise  after  their  deaths 
who  did  not  do  so  while  they  were  hving.  Pos- 
terity could  not  be  supposed  to  rake  into  the  rec- 
ords of  past  times  for  the  illustrious  obscure,  and 
only  ratify  or  annul  the  lists  of  great  names  handed 
down  to  them  by  the  voice  of  common  fame.  Few 
people  recover  from  the  neglect  or  obloquy  of  their 
contemporaries.  The  public  will  hardly  be  at  the 
pains  to  try  the  same  cause  twice  over,  or  does  not 
like  to  reverse  its  own  sentence,  at  least  when  on 
the  unfavorable  side.  —  Hazlitt. 

Celebrity  sells  dearly  what  we  think  she  gives.  — 
Emile  Souvestre. 

Fame  has  no  necessary  conjunction  with  praise; 
it  may  exist  without  the  breath  of  a  word:  it  is  a 
recognition  of  excellence  which  must  be  felt,  but 
need  not  be  spoken.  Even  the  envious  must  feel  it; 
feel  it,  and  hate  in  silence. —  Washington  Allston. 

Many  have  lived  on  a  pedestal  who  will  never 
have  a  statue  when  dead,  —  Beranger. 

I  hope  the  day  will  never  arrive  when  I  shall 
neither  be  the  object  of  calumny  nor  ridicule,  for 
then  I  shall  be  neglected  and  forgotten.  —  Johnson. 

A  man  who  cannot  win  fame  in  his  own  age  will 
have  a  very  small  chance  of  winning  it  from  posterity. 
True  there  are  some  half  dozen  exceptions  to  this 
truth  among  millions  of  myriads  that  attest  it;  but 
what  man  of  common  sense  would  invest  any  large 
amount  of  hope  in  so  unpromising  a  lottery. — Bul- 
wer-Lytton. 

Fame  is  the  thirst  of  youth.  —  Byron. 

Our  admiration  of  a  famous  man  lessens  upon  our 
nearer  acquaintance  with  him;  and  we  seldom  hear 
of  a  celebrated  person  without  a  catalogue  of  some 
notorious  weaknesses  and  infirmities. — Addison. 

Even  the  best  things  are  not  equal  to  their  fame. 
—  Thoreau. 


PAN  87  FAU 

Fanaticism.  — Fanaticism,  to  which  men  are 
so  much  inclined,  has  always  served  not  only  to  ren- 
der them  more  brutalized  but  more  wicked.  — -Vol- 
taire. 

Painful  and  corporeal  punishments  should  never 
be  applied  to  fanaticism;  for,  being  founded  on  pride, 
it  glories  in  persecution. — Beccaria. 

The  false  fire  of  an  overheated  mind.  —  Cowper. 

Fanaticism  is  the  child  of  false  zeal  and  of  super- 
stition, the  father  of  intolerance  and  of  persecution. 
— /.  Fletcher, 

Fashion.  —  Fashion  is  the  great  governor  of 
this  world.  It  presides  not  only  in  matters  of  dress 
and  amusement,  but  in  law,  physic,  politics,  religion, 
and  all  other  things  of  the  gravest  kind.  Indeed, 
the  wisest  of  men  would  be  puzzled  to  give  any  bet- 
ter reason  why  particular  forms  in  all  these  have 
been  at  certain  times  universally  received,  and  at 
other  times  universally  rejected,  than  that  they  were 
in  or  out  of  fashion.  —  Fielding. 

Fancy  and  pride  seek  things  at  vast  expense.  — 
Young. 

A  beautiful  envelope  for  mortality,  presenting  a 
glittering  and  polished  exterior,  the  appearance  of 
which  gives  no  certain  indication  of  the  real  value 
of  what  is  contained  therein. — Mr.f.  Balfonr. 

Beauty  too  often  sacrifices  to  fashion.  The  spirit 
of  fashion  is  not  the  beautiful,  but  the  willful;  not 
the  graceful,  but  the  fantastic ;  not  the  superior  in 
the  abstract,  but  the  superior  in  the  worst  of  all 
concretes, — the  vulgar. — Leigh  Hunt. 

Faults.  —  To  acknowledge  our  faults  when  we 
are  blamed  is  modesty;  to  discover  them  to  one's 
friends,  in  ingenuousness,  is  confidence;  but  to 
preach  them  to  all  the  world,  if  one  does  not  take 
care,  is  pride. —  Confucius. 

The  first  fault  is  the  child  of  simplicity,  but  every 
other  the  offspring  of  guilt.  —  Goldsmith, 


TEA  88  FIC 

Fear.  —  It  is  no  ways  congruous  that  God  should 
be  frightening  men  into  truth  who  were  made  to  be 
wrought  upon  by  cahn  evidence  and  gentle  methods 
of  persuasion.  — Atterhury. 

Fear  is  far  more  painful  to  cowardice  than  death 
to  true  courage. — Sir  P.  Sidney. 

Fear  is  the  tax  that  conscience  pays  to  guilt.  — 
George  Sewell. 

Fear  invites  danger;  concealed  cowards  insult 
known  ones.  —  Chesterfield. 

Felicity.  —  The  world  produces  for  every  pint 
of  honey  a  gallon  of  gall;  for  every  dram  of  pleas- 
ure a  pound  of  pain;  for  every  inch  of  mirth  an  ell 
of  moan;  and  as  the  ivy  twines  around  the  oak,  so 
does  misery  and  misfortune  encompass  the  happy 
man.  Felicity,  pure  and  unalloyed  felicity,  is  not  a 
plant  of  earthly  growth;  her  gardens  are  the  skies. 

—  Burton. 

Fickleness.  —  Everything  by  starts,  and 
nothing  long.  —  Dryden. 

It  will  be  found  that  they  are  the  weakest-minded 
and  the  hardest-hearted  men  that  most  love  change. 

—  Ruskin. 

Fiction.  —  Truth  severe,  by  fairy  fiction  drest. 

—  Gray. 

Every  fiction  since  Homer  has  taught  friendship, 
patriotism,  generosity,  contempt  of  death.  These 
are  the  highest  virtues ;  and  the  fictions  which 
taught  them  were  therefore  of  the  highest,  though 
not  of  unmixed,  utility.  — Sir  J.  Mackintosh. 

I  have  often  maintained  that  fiction  may  be  much 
more  instructive  than  real  history.  —  Eev.  John 
Foster. 

Fiction  is  of  the  essence  of  poetry  as  well  as  of 
painting:  there  is  a  reseuiblante  in  one  of  human 
bodies,  things,  and  actions  which  are  not  real,  and 
in  the  other  of  a  true  story  by  fiction. — Dryden, 


FIC  89  FLA 

Fiction  is  no  longer  a  mere  amusement  ;  but  tran- 
scendent genius,  accommodating  itself  to  the  char- 
acter of  the  age,  has  seized  upon  this  province  of 
hterature,  and  turned  fiction  from  a  toy  into  a 
mighty  engine.  —  Channing. 

The  best  portraits  are  those  in  which  there  is  a 
slight  mixture  of  caricature  ;  and  we  are  not  aware 
that  the  best  histories  are  not  those  in  which  a  httle 
of  the  exaggeration  of  fictitious  narrative  is  judi- 
ciously employed.  Something  is  lost  in  accuracy; 
but  much  is  gained  in  effect.  The  fainter  lines 
are  neglected  ;  but  the  great  characteristic  features 
are  imprinted  on  the  mind  forever.  — Macaulay. 

Those  who  delight  in  the  study  of  human  nature 
may  improve  in  the  knowledge  of  it,  and  in  the 
profitable  application  of  that  knowledge,  by  the 
perusal  of  such  fictions  as  those  before  us  [Jane 
Austen's  Novels]. — Archbishop  Whately. 

Firmness.  —  The  greatest  firmness  is  the 
greatest  mercy.  —  Longfellow. 

Stand  firm  and  immovable  as  an  anvil  when  it  is 
beaten  upon.  —  St.  Ignatius. 

Flattery.  —  The  art  of  flatterers  is  to  take 
advantage  of  the  foibles  of  the  great,  to  foster  their 
errors,  and  never  to  give  advice  which  may  annoy. 
—  Moliere. 

He  does  me  double  wrong  that  wounds  me  with 
the  flatteries  of  his  tongue.  —  Shakespeare. 

Flattery  is  often  a  traffic  of  mutual  meanness, 
where,  although  both  parties  intend  deception,  nei- 
ther are  deceived,  since  words  that  cost  little  are 
exchanged  for  hopes  that  cost  less.  —  Colton. 

The  most  dangerous  of  all  flattery  is  the  inferior- 
ity of  those  about  us.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Though  flattery  blossoms  like  friendship,  yet  there 
is  a  great  difference  in  the  fruit.  —  Socrates. 


FLA  90  FLO 

The  coin  that  is  most  current  among  mankind  is 
flattery;  the  only  benefit  of  which  is  that  by  hear- 
ing what  we  are  not  we  may  be  instructed  what  we 
ought  to  be.  —  Swift. 

Blinded  as  they  are  to  their  true  character  by 
self-love,  every  man  is  his  own  first  and  chiefest  flat- 
terer, prepared,  therefore,  to  welcome  the  flatterer 
from  the  outside,  who  only  comes  confirming  the 
verdict  of  the  flatterer  within. — Plutarch. 

Flattery  is  an  ensnaring  quality,  and  leaves  a  very 
dangerous  impression.  It  swells  a  man's  imagina- 
tion, entertains  his  fancy,  and  drives  him  to  a  dot- 
ing upon  his  own  person. — Jeremy  Collier. 

Because  all  men  are  apt  to  flatter  themselves,  to 
entertain  the  addition  of  other  men's  praises  is  most 
perilous.  —  Sir  W.  Raleigh. 

Out  of  the  pulpit,  I  trust  none  can  accuse  me  of 
too  much  plainness  of  speech;  but  there,  madame 
[Queen  Mary],  1  am  not  my  own  master,  but  must 
speak  that  which  I  am  commanded  by  the  King  of 
kings,  and  dare  not,  on  my  soul,  flatter  any  one  on 
the  face  of  all  the  earth. — John  Knox. 

Flowers.  —  Luther  always  kept  a  flower  in  a 
glass  on  his  writing-table;  and  when  he  was  waging 
his  great  public  controversy  with  Eckius  he  kept  a 
flower  in  his  hand.  Lord  Bacon  has  a  beautiful  pas- 
sage about  flowers.  As  to  Shakspeare,  he  is  a  per- 
fect Alpine  valley,  —  he  is  full  of  flowers  ;  they 
spring,  and  blossom,  and  wave  in  every  cleft  of  his 
mind.  Even  Milton,  cold,  serene,  and  stately  as  he 
is,  breaks  forth  into  exquisite  gushes  of  tenderness 
and  fancy  when  he  marshals  the  flowers.  —  Mrs. 
Stowe. 

Flowers,  leaves,  fruit,  are  the  air-woven  children 
of  light.  —  Moleschott. 

Ye  pretty  daughters  of  the  Earth  and  Sun. — Sir 
Walter  Raleigh. 


FLO  91  FOP 

I  always  think  the  flowers  can  see  us  and  know 
what  we  are  thinking  about.  —  George  Eliot. 

What  a  desolate  place  would  be  a  world  without 
a  flower!  It  would  be  a  face  without  a  smile,  — a 
feast  without  a  welcome!  Are  not  flowers  the  stars 
of  the  earth?  and  are  not  our  stars  the  flowers  of 
heaven?  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

What  a  pity  flowers  can  utter  no  sound !  A  sing- 
ing rose,  a  whispering  violet,  a  murmuring  honey- 
suckle, —  oh,  what  a  rare  and  exquisite  miracle 
would  these  be!  —  Beecher. 

The  bright  mosaic,  that  with  storied  beauty,  the 
floor  of  nature's  temple  tessellate.  —  Horace  Smith. 

Fools.  —  You  pity  a  man  who  is  lame  or  blind, 
but  you  never  pity  him  for  being  a  fool,  which  is 
often  a  much  greater  misfortune.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

A  learned  fool  is  more  foolish  than  an  ignorant 
fool.  —  Moliere. 

Of  all  thieves  fools  are  the  worst ;  they  rob  you 
of  time  and  temper.  —  Goethe. 

Fortune  makes  folly  her  peculiar  care.  —  Churchill. 

It  would  be  easier  to  endow  a  fool  with  intellect 
than  to  persuade  him  that  he  had  none.  —  Babinet. 

There  are  many  more  fools  in  the  world  than 
there  are  knaves,  otherwise  the  knaves  could  not 
exist.  — Bulwer-Lytton. 

There  are  more  fools  than  sages,  and  among  sages 
there  is  more  folly  than  wisdom.  —  Chamfort. 

Foppery.  —  Foppery  is  never  cured  ;  it  is  the 
bad  stamina  of  the  mind,  which,  like  those  of  the 
body,  are  never  rectified  ;  once  a  coxcomb  and  al- 
ways a  coxcomb. — Johnson. 

Foppery  is  the  egotism  of  clothes.  —  Victor  Hugo. 

Nature  has  sometimes  made  a  fool ;  but  a  cox- 
comb is  always  of  a  man's  own  making.  — Addison. 


FOR  92  FOR 

Forbearance.  —  The  little  I  have  seen  of  the 
world  teaches  me  to  look  upon  the  errors  of  others 
in  sorrow,  not  in  anger.  When  I  take  the  history 
of  one  poor  heart  that  has  sinned  and  suffered,  and 
represent  to  myself  the  struggles  and  temptations 
it  has  passed  through,  the  brief  pulsations  of  joy, 
the  feverish  inquietude  of  hope  and  fear,  the  press- 
ure of  want,  the  desertion  of  friends,  I  would  fain 
leave  the  erring  soul  of  my  fellow-man  with  Him 
from  whose  hand  it  came. — Longfellow. 

Forethought.  —  Human  foresight  often 
leaves  its  proudest  possessor  only  a  choice  of  evils. 

—  Colton. 

Whoever  fails  to  turn  aside  the  ills  of  life  by  pru- 
dent forethought,  must  submit  to  fulfill  the  course  of 
destiny.  —  Schiller. 

In  life,  as  in  chess,  forethought  wins.  —  Charles 
Buxton. 

If  a  man  take  no  thought  about  what  is  distant, 
he  will  find  sorrow  near  at  hand. —  Confucius. 

Those  old  stories  of  visions  and  dreams  guiding 
men  have  tlieir  truth:  we  are  saved  by  making  the 
future  present  to  ourselves.  —  George  Eliot. 

Forgetfulness.  —  There  is  nothing,  no, 
nothing,  innocent  or  good  that  dies  and  is  forgotten: 
let  tis  hold  to  that  faith  or  none.  An  infant,  a 
prattling  child,  dying  in  the  cradle,  will  hve  again 
in  the  better  thoughts  of  those  that  loved  it,  and 
play  its  part  through  them  in  the  redeeming  actions 
of  the  world,  though  its  body  be  burnt  to  ashes,  or 
drowned  in  the  deep  sea.  Forgotten!  Oh,  if  the 
deeds  of  human  creatures  could  be  traced  to  their 
source,  how  beautiful  would  even  death  appear!  for 
how  much  charity,  mercy,  and  purified  affection 
would  be  seen  to  have  their  growth  in  dusty  graves  I 

—  Dickens, 


FOR  93  FOR 

Forgiveness.  —  It  is  more  easy  to  forgive  the 
■weak  who  have  injured  us,  than  the  ])owerful  whom 
we  have  injured.  That  conduct  will  be  continued 
by  our  fears  which  commenced  in  our  resentment. 
He  that  has  gone  so  far  as  to  cut  the  claws  of  the 
hon  will  not  feel  himself  quite  secure  until  he  has 
also  drawn  his  teeth. —  Colton. 

They  never  pardon  who  commit  the  wrong. — 
Dryden. 

May  I  tell  you  why  it  seems  to  me  a  good  thing 
for  us  to  remember  wrong  that  has  been  done  us? 
That  we  may  forgive  it.  —  Dickens. 

'T  is  easier  for  the  generous  to  forgive  than  for 
offense  to  ask  it.  —  Thomson. 

Life,  that  ever  needs  forgiveness,  has,  for  its  first 
duty,  to  forgive.  —  Buliver-Lytton. 

It  is  easy  enough  to  forgive  your  enemies,  if  you 
have  not  the  means  to  harm  them.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

More  bounteous  run  rivers  when  the  ice  that 
locked  their  flow  melts  into  their  waters.  And 
when  fine  natures  relent,  their  kindness  is  swelled 
by  the  thaw. — Bulwer-Lytlon. 

Fortitude. — White  men  should  exhibit  the 
same  insensibility  to  moral  tortures  that  red  men  do 
to  physical  torments.  —  Theophile  Gautier. 

There  is  a  strength  of  quiet  endurance  as  signifi- 
cant of  courage  as  the  most  daring  feats  of  prowess. 
—  Tuckerman. 

Fortitude  is  the  guard  and  support  of  the  other 
virtues.  —  Locke. 

Fortune.  —  Fortune  loves  only  the  young.  — 
Charles  V. 

Ill  fortune  never  crushed  that  man  whom  good 
fortune  deceived  not. — Ben  Jonson. 

It  is  often  the  easiest  move  that  completes  the 
game.  Fortune  is  like  the  lady  whom  a  lover  car- 
ried off  from  all  his  rivals  by  putting  an  additional 
lace  upon  his  liveries.  —  Bulwer-Lyiton. 


FOR  94  FOR 

The  use  we  make  of  our  fortune  determines  its 
sufficiency.  A  little  is  enough  if  used  wisely,  and 
too  much  if  expended  foolishly.  —  Bovee. 

The  fortunate  circumstances  of  our  lives  are  gen- 
erally found  at  last  to  be  of  our  own  producing.  — 
Goldsmith. 

Fortune  has  been  considered  the  guardian  divinity 
of  fools  ;  and,  on  this  score,  she  has  been  accused 
of  blindness  ;  but  it  should  rather  be  adduced  as  a 
proof  of  her  sagacity,  when  she  helps  those  who 
certainly  cannot  help  themselves. —  Co/ton. 

Fortunes  made  in  no  time  are  like  shirts  made  in 
no  time;  it 's  ten  to  one  if  they  hang  long  together. 
—  Douglas  Jerrold. 

There  is  some  help  for  all  the  defects  of  fortune  ; 
for  if  a  man  cannot  attain  to  the  length  of  his 
wishes,  he  may  have  his  remedy  by  cutting  of  ihem 
shorter.  —  Cowley. 

Fortune,  to  show  us  her  power  in  all  things,  and 
to  abate  our  presumption,  seeing  she  could  not  make 
fools  v/ise,  she  has  made  them  fortunate.  —  Mon- 
taigne. 

See'st  thou  not  what  various  fortunes  the  Divin- 
ity makes  man  to  pass  through,  changing  and  turn- 
ing them  from  day  to  day?  —  Euripides. 

Fortune  is  but  a  synonymous  word  for  nature  and 
necessity.  —  Bendey. 

Foolish  I  deem  him  who,  thinking  that  his  state  is 
blest,  rejoices  in  security ;  for  Fortune,  like  a  man 
distempered  in  his  senses,  leaps  now  this  way,  now 
that,  and  no  man  is  always  fortunate. —  Euripides. 

They  say  Fortune  is  a  woman  and  capricious. 
But  sometimes  she  is  a  good  woman,  and  gives  to 
those  who  merit.  —  George  Eliot. 

If  Fortune  has  fairly  sat  on  a  man,  he  takes  it  for 
granted  that  life  consists  in  being  sat  upon.  But  to 
be  coddled  on  Fortune's  knee,  and  then  have  his 
ears  boxed,  that  is  aggravating.  —  Charles  Buxton. 


FRA  95  FBI 

Fraud.  —  The  more  gross  the  fraud  the  more 
glibly  will  it  go  down,  and  the  more  greedily  will  it 
be  swallowed;  since  folly  will  always  find  faith 
wherever  impostors  will  find  impudence. —  Colton. 

Friendship.  — Friendship  has  steps  which 
lead  up  to  the  throne  of  God,  though  all  spirits  come 
to  the  Infinite  ;  only  Love  is  satiable,  and  like  Truth, 
admits  of  no  three  degrees  of  comparison  ;  and 
a  simple  being  fills  the  heart. — Richter. 

Very  pleasant  hast  thou  been  unto  me  :  thy  love 
to  me  was  wonderful,  passing  the  love  of  women.  — 
Bible. 

Fix  yourself  upon  the  wealthy.  In  a  word,  take 
this  for  a  golden  rule  through  life  :  Never,  never 
have  a  friend  that  is  poorer  than  yourself.  —  Douglas 
Jerrold. 

Experience  has  taught  me  that  the  only  friends 
we  can  call  our  own,  who  can  have  no  change,  are 
those  over  whom  the  grave  has  closed  ;  the  seal  of 
death  is  the  only  seal  of  friendship.  — Byron. 

What  is  commonly  called  friendship  even  is  only 
a  little  more  honor  among  rogues.  —  Thoreau. 

So  great  a  happiness  do  I  esteem  it  to  be  toved, 
that  Infancy  every  blessing  both  from  gods  and  men 
ready  to  descend  spontaneously  upon  him  who  is 
loved.  — Xenophon. 

Nothing  makes  the  earth  seem  so  spacious  as  to 
have  friends  at  a  distance  ;  they  make  the  latitudes 
and  longitudes.  —  Thoreau. 

The  friendship  between  great  men  is  rarely  inti- 
mate or  permanent.  It  is  a  Boswell  that  most  ap- 
preciates a  Johnson.  Genius  has  no  brother,  no 
co-mate ;  the  love  it  inspires  is  that  of  a  pupil  or  a 
son.  — Bulwer-Lytton. 

The  firmest  friendships  have  been  formed  in  mut- 
ual adversity  ;  as  iron  is  most  strongly  united  by 
the  fiercest  flame.  —  Colton. 


FRI  96  FUT 

Never*  contract  a  friendship  witli  a  man  that  is 
not  better  than  thyself. —  Confucius. 

There  are  three  friendships  which  are  advanta- 
geous, and  three  which  are  injurious.  Friendship 
with  the  upright,  friendship  witli  the  sincere,  and 
friendship  with  the  man  of  much  information,  — 
these  are  advantaoeous.  Friendship  with  the  man 
of  specious  airs,  friendship  with  tlie  insinuatingly- 
soft,  friendship  with  the  glib-tongued,  —  these  are 
injurious.  —  Confucius. 

Friendship  survives  death  better  than  absence.  — 
/.  Petit  Senn. 

This  communicating  of  a  man's  self  to  his  friend 
works  two  contrary  effects,  for  it  redoubleth  joys 
and  cutteth  griefs  in  half  :  for  there  is  no  man  that 
iuiparteth  his  joys  to  his  friend,  but  he  joyeth  the 
more  ;  and  no  man  that  imparteth  his  griefs  to  his 
friend,  but  he  grieveth  the  less.  —  Bacon. 

Sweet  is  the  memory  of  distant  friends  !  Like 
the  mellow  rays  of  the  declining  sun,  it  falls  ten- 
derly, yet  sadly,  on  the  heart.  —  Washington  Irving. 

It  may  be  worth  noticing  as  a  curious  circum- 
stance, when  persons  past  forty  before  they  were 
at  all  acquainted  form  together  a  very  close  inti- 
macy of  friendship.  For  grafts  of  old  wood  to  toAe, 
there  must  be  a  wonderful  congeniality  between  the 
trees.  —  Whatehj. 

An  old  friend  is  not  always  the  person  whom  it  is 
easiest  to  make  a  confidant  of. —  George  Eliot. 

Fun. —  There  is  nothing  like  fun,  is  there?  I 
have  n't  any  myself,  and  I  do  like  it  in  others.  Oh, 
we  need  it,  —  we  need  all  the  counter-weights  we 
can  muster  to  balance  the  sad  relations  of  life.  God 
has  made  sunny  spots  in  the  heart;  why  should  we 
exclude  the  light  from  them?  —  Halihurton. 

Futurity.  —  The  best  preparation  for  the  fut- 
ure is  the  present  well  seen  to,  the  last  duty  done. 
—  George  MacDonald. 


FUT  97  GEN 

We  always  live  prospectively,  never  retrospect- 
ively, and  there  is  no  abiding  moment.  — Jacohi. 

Another  life,  if  it  were  not  better  than  this,  would 
be  less  a  promise  than  a  threat.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 

The  spirit  of  man,  which   God  inspired,  cannot 
together  perish  with  this  corporeal  clod.  —  Milton. 


G. 

Gambling. —  Gaming  is  a  kind  of  tacit  confes- 
sion that  the  company  engaged  therein  do,  in  gen- 
eral, exceed  the  bounds  of  their  respective  fortunes, 
and  therefore  they  cast  lots  to  determine  upon  whom 
the  ruin  shall  at  present  fall,  that  the  rest  may  be 
saved  a  little  longer.  —  Blackstone. 

A  mode  of  transferring  property  without  produc- 
ing any  intermediate  good.  —  Johnson. 

Gems.  —  How  very  beautiful  these  gems  are! 
It  is  strange  how  deeply  colors  seem  to  penetrate 
one,  like  scent.  I  suppose  that  is  the  reason  why 
gems  are  used  as  spiritual  emblems  in  the  Revela- 
tion of  St.  John.  They  look  like  fragments  of 
heaven.  —  George  Eliot. 

Generosity.  —  A  friend  to  everybody  is  often 
a  friend  to  nobody,  or  else  in  his  simplicity  he  robs 
his  family  to  help  strangers,  and  becomes  brother 
to  a  beggar.  There  is  wisdom  in  generosity  as  in 
everything  else.  —  Spurgeon. 

Generosity  is  the  accompaniment  of  high  birth; 
pity  and  gratitude  are  its  attendants.  —  Corneille. 

It  is  good  to  be  unselfish  and  generous;  but  don't 
carry  that  too  far.  It  will  not  do  to  give  yourself  to 
be  melted  down  for  the  benefit  of  the  tallow-trade ; 
you  must  know  where  to  find  yourself.  —  George 
Eliot. 

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GEN  98  GEN 

If  cruelty  has  its  expiations  and  its  remorses,  gen- 
erosity has  its  chances  and  its  turns  of  good  fortune; 
as  if  Providence  reserved  them  for  fitting  occasions, 
that  noble  hearts  may  not  be  discouraged. — Lamar- 
tine. 

Genius.  —  Genius  is  rarely  found  without  some 
mixture  of  eccentricity,  as  the  strength  of  spirit  is 
proved  by  the  bubbles  on  its  surface.  —  Mrs.  Bal- 
four. 

All  great  men  are  in  some  degree  inspired.  — 
Cicero. 

This  is  the  highest  miracle  of  genius  :  that  things 
which  are  not  should  be  as  though  they  were  ; 
that  the  imaginations  of  one  mind  should  become 
the  personal  recollections  of  another.  —  Macaulay. 

The  path  of  genius  is  not  less  obstructed  with  dis- 
appointment than  that  of  ambition.  — Voltaire. 

One  misfortune  of  extraordinary  geniuses  is  that 
their  very  friends  are  more  apt  to  admire  than  love 
them.  —  Pope. 

Genius  speaks  only  to  genius.  ~  Stanislaus. 

A  nation  does  wisely,  if  not  well,  in  starving  her 
men  of  genius.  Fatten  them,  and  they  are  done  for. 
—  Charles  Buxton. 

Genius  has  no  brother.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Genius  never  grows  old  ;  young  to-day,  mature 
yesterday,  vigorous  to-morrow  :  always  immortal. 
It  is  peculiar  to  no  sex  or  condition,  and  is  the  di- 
vine gift  to  woman  no  less  than  to  man. — Juan 
■  Lewis. 

Gentleman.  —  A  gentleman's  first  character- 
istic is  that  fineness  of  structure  in  the  body  which 
renders  it  capable  of  the  most  delicate  sensation; 
and  of  structure  in  the  mind  which  renders  it  capa- 
ble of  the  most  delicate  sympathies  ;  one  may  say, 
simply,  "fineness  of  nature."  This  is  of  course 
compatible  with  heroic  bodily  strength  and  mental 


GEN  99  GIF 

firmness ;  in  fact,  heroic  strength  is  not  conceivable 
without  such  delicacy.  — Ruskin. 

It  is  a  grand  old  name,  that  of  gentleman,  and 
has  been  recognized  as  a  rank  and  power  in  all 
stages  of  society.  To  possess  this  character  is  a  dig- 
nity of  itself,  commanding  the  instinctive  homage  of 
every  generous  mind,  and  those  who  will  not  bow  to 
titular  rank  will  yet  do  homage  to  the  gentleman. 
His  qualities  de[)end  not  upon  fashion  or  manners, 
but  upon  moral  worth ;  not  on  personal  possessions, 
but  on  personal  qualities.  The  Psalmist  briefly  de- 
scribes him  as  one  ''  that  walketh  uprightly,  and 
worketh  righteousness,  and  speaketh  the  truth  in  his 
heart."  —  Sainuel  Smiles. 

There  is  no  man  that  can  teach  us  to  be  gentle- 
men better  than  Joseph  Addison. —  Thackeray. 

Gentleness.  —  Fearless  gentleness  is  the  most 
beautiful  of  feminine  attractions,  born  of  modesty 
and  love.  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

Gentleness  is  far  more  successful  in  all  its  enter- 
prises than  violence;  indeed,  violence  generally  frus- 
trates its  own  purpose,  while  gentleness  scarcely 
ever  fails. — Locke. 

Sweet  speaking  oft  a  currish  heart  reclaims. — 
Sidney. 

The  golden  beams  of  truth  and  the  silken  cords  of 
love,  twisted  together,  will  draw  men  on  with  a 
sweet  violence,  whether  they  will  or  not.  —  Cud- 
worth. 

Gifts .  —  One  must  be  poor  to  know  the  luxury 
of  giving !  —  George  Eliot. 

Riches,  understanding,  beauty,  are  fair  gifts  of 
God.  —  Luther. 

And  with  them  words  of  so  sweet  breath  composed 
as  made  the  things  more  rich.  —  Shakespeare. 

*  How  can  that  gift  leave  a  trace  which  has  left  no 
void  ?  —  Madame  Sweichine. 


GIF  100  GLO 

The  best  thing  to  give  to  your  enemy  is  forgive- 
ness; to  an  opponent,  tolerance;  to  a  friend,  your 
heart;  to  your  child,  a  good  example;  to  a  father, 
deference;  to  your  mother,  conduct  that  will  make 
her  proud  of  you;  to  yourself ,  respect;  to  all  men, 
charity. — Mrs.  Balfour. 

Examples  are  few  of  men  ruined  by  giving.  Men 
are  heroes  in  spending,  very  cravens  in  what  they 
give.  —  Bove'e. 

When  a  friend  asks,  there  is  no  to-morrow.  — 
George  Herbert. 

Strange  designs  lurk  under  a  gift.  *'  Give  the 
horse  to  his  Holiness,"  said  the  cardinal.  "  I  can- 
not serve  you !  "  —  Zimmermann, 

Glory.  —  To  a  father  who  loves  his  children 
victory  has  no  charms.  When  the  heart  speaks, 
glory  itself  is  an  illusion.  —  Napoleon. 

Those  who  start  for  human  glory,  like  the  mettled 
hounds  of  Actseon,  must  pursue  the  game  not  only 
where  there  is  a  path,  but  where  there  is  none. 
They  must  be  able  to  simulate  and  dissimulate,  to 
leap  and  to  creep;  to  conquer  the  earth  like  Caesar, 
or  to  fall  down  and  kiss  it  like  Brutus;  to  throw 
their  sword  like  Brennus  into  the  trembling  scale;  or, 
like  Nelson,  to  snatch  the  laurels  from  the  doubtful 
hand  of  Victory,  while  she  is  hesitating  where  to  be- 
stow them.  —  Colton. 

Obloquy  is  a  necessary  ingredient  in  the  composi- 
tion of  all  true  glory.  —  Burke. 

The  best  kind  of  glory  is  that  which  is  reflected 
from  honesty,  —  such  as  was  the  glory  of  Cato  and 
Aristides;  but  it  was  harmful  to  them  both,  and  is 
seldom  beneficial  to  any  man  whilst  he  lives;  what 
it  is  to  him  after  his  death  I  cannot  say,  because  I 
love  not  philosophy  merely  notional  and  conjectural, 
and  no  man  who  has  made  the  experiment  has  been* 
so  kind  as  to  come  back  to  inform  us.  —  Cowley. 


GLo  lor  ciot> 

Nothing  is  so  expensive  as  glory.  —  Sydney  Smith. 
The  love  of  glory  can  only  create  a  hero,  the  con- 
tempt of  it  creates  a  wise  man.  —  Talleyrand. 

Gluttony.  —  Whose  god  is  their  belly,  and 
whose  glory  is  in  their  shame.  —  Bible. 

The  kitchen  is  their  shrine,  the  cook  their  priest, 
the  table  their  altar,  and  their  belly  their  god.  — 
Buck. 

God.  —  He  that  doth  the  ravens  feed,  yea,  prov- 
identially caters  for  the  sparrow,  be  comfort  to  my 
age !  —  Shakespeare. 

To  escape  from  evil,  we  must  be  made  as  far  as 
possible  like  God;  and  this  resemblance  consists  in 
becoming  just  and  holy  and  Avise.  —  Plato. 

Whenever  I  think  of  God  I  can  only  conceive  him 
as  a  Being  infinitely  great  and  infinitely  good.  This 
last  quality  of  the  divine  nature  inspires  me  with 
such  confidence  and  joy  that  I  couhl  have  written 
even  a  miserere  in  tempo  allegro.  — Hay  In. 

All  flows  out  from  the  Deity,  and  all  must  be  ab- 
sorbed in  him  again.  —  Zoroaster. 

It  were  better  to  have  no  opinion  of  God  at  all 
than  such  an  opinion  as  is  unworthy  of  him;  for  the 
one  is  unbelief,  and  the  other  is  contumely ;  and 
certainly  superstition  is  the  reproach  of  the  Deity. 
— Bacon. 

I  have  seen  two  miracles  lately.  I  looked  up,  and 
saw  the  clouds  above  me  in  the  noontide;  and  they 
looked  like  the  sea  that  was  hanging  over  me,  and 
I  could  see  no  cord  on  which  they  were  suspended, 
and  yet  they  never  fell.  And  then  when  the  noon- 
tide had  gone,  and  the  midnight  came,  I  looked 
again,  and  there  was  the  dome  of  heaven,  and  it  was 
spangled  with  stars,  and  I  could  see  no  pillars  that 
held  up  the  skies,  and  yet  they  never  fell.  Now  He 
that  holds  the  stars  up  and  moves  the  clouds  in 
their  course  can  do  all  things,  and  I  trust  Him  in 
the"  sight  of  these  miracles. — Luther. 


GOD  102  GOO 

This  avenging  God,  rancorous  torturer  who  burns 
his  creatures  in  a  slow  fire !  When  they  tell  me  that 
God  made  himself  a  man,  I  prefer  to  recognize  a 
man  who  made  himself  a  god.  —  Alfred  de  Musset. 

This  is  one  of  the  names  which  we  give  to  that 
eternal,  infinite,  and  incomprehensible  being,  the 
Creator  of  all  things,  who  preserves  and  governs 
everything  by  his  almighty  power  and  wisdom,  and 
is  the  only  object  of  our  worship.  —  Cruden. 

Gold.  —  Midas  longed  for  gold.  He  got  gold 
so  that  whatever  he  touched  became  gold,  an<i  he, 
with  his  long  ears,  was  little  the  better  for  it.  — 
Carlyle. 

A  mask  of  gold  hides  all  deformities.  —  Dekker. 

There  are  two  metals,  one  of  which  is  omnipotent 
in  the  cabinet,  and  the  other  in  the  camp, — gold 
and  iron.  He  that  knows  how  to  apply  them  both 
may  indeed  attain  the  highest  station,  but  he  must 
know  something  more  to  keep  it. —  Colton.    ' 

Thou  true  magnetic  pole,  to  which  all  hearts  point 
duly  north,  like  trembling  needles!  —  Byron. 

Judges  and  senates  have  been  bought  for  gold.  — 
Pope. 

Gold  is,  in  its  last  analysis,  the  sweat  of  the  poor, 
and  the  blood  of  the  brave — Joseph  Napoleon. 

Gold  all  is  not  that  doth  golden  seem.  —  Spenser. 
There  is  no  place  so  high  that  an  ass  laden  with 
gold  cannot  reach  it.  —  Rojas. 

Good.  —  When  what  is  good  comes  of  age  and 
is  likely  to  live,  there  is  reason  for  rejoicing.  —  George 
Eliot. 

How  indestructibly  the  good  grows,  and  propa- 
gates itself,  even  among  the  weedy  entanglements  of 
evil !  —  Carlyle. 

Good,  the  more  communicated,  more  abundant 
grows.  —  Milton. 


GOO  103  GOO 

Whatever  mitigates  the  woes  or  increases  the 
happiness  of  others  is  a  just  criterion  of  goodness; 
and  whatever  injures  society  at  large,  or  any  indi- 
vidual in  it,  is  a  criterion  of  iniquity.  One  should 
not  quarrel  with  a  dog  without  a  reason  sufficient  to 
vindicate  one  through  all  the  courts  of  morality. — 
Goldsmith. 

The  true  and  good  resemble  gold.  Gold  seldom 
appears  obvious  and  solid,  but  it  pervades  invisibly 
the  bodies  that  contain  it. — Jacohi. 

He  is  good  that  does  good  to  others.  If  he  suffers 
for  the  good  he  does,  he  is  better  still;  and  if  he 
suffers  from  them  to  whom  he  did  good,  he  is  arrived 
to  that  height  of  goodness  that  nothing  but  an  in- 
crease of  his  sufferings  can  add  to  it;  if  it  proves  his 
death,  his  virtue  is  at  its  summit, — it  is  heroism 
complete.  —  Bruyere. 

That  is  good  which  doth  good.  —  Venning, 

The  Pythagoreans  make  good  to  be  certain  and 
finite,  and  evil  infinite  and  uncertain.  There  are  a 
thousand  ways  to  miss  the  white;  there  is  only  one  to 
hit  it.  —  Montaigne. 

Good-humor.  —  Honest  good-humor  is  the 
oil  and  wine  of  a  merry  meeting,  and  there  is  no 
jovial  companionship  equal  to  that  where  the  jokes 
are  rather  small  and  the  laughter  abundant.  —  Wash- 
ington Irving. 

Affability,  mildness,  tenderness,  and  a  word  which 
I  would  fain  bring  back  to  its  original  signification 
of  virtue,  —  I  mean  good-nature,  — are  of  daily  use: 
they  are  the  bread  of  mankind  and  staff  of  life.  — 
Dry  den. 

This  portable  quality  of  good-humor  seasons  all 
the  parts  and  occurrences  we  meet  with,  in  such  a 
manner  that  there  are  no  moments  lost,  but  they  all 
pass  with  so  much  satisfaction  that  the  heaviest  of 
loads  (when  it  is  a  load),  that  of  time,  is  never  felt 
by  us.  —  Steele, 


GOO  104  GOV 

Gayety  is  to  good-humor  as  perfumes  to  vegetable 
fragrance :  the  one  overpowers  weak  spirits,  the  other 
recreates  and  revives  them. — Johnson. 

That  inexhaustible  good-nature,  which  is  the  most 
precious  gift  of  Heaven,  spreading  itself  like  oil 
over  the  troubled  sea  of  thought,  and  keeping  the 
mind  smooth  and  equable  in  the  roughest  weather. 

—  Washington  Irving. 

Goodness.  —  Nothing  rarer  than  real  good- 
ness. — Rochefoucauld. 

True  goodness  is  like  the  glow-worm  in  this,  that 
it  shines  most  when  no  eyes  except  those  of  Heaven 
are  upon  it.  —  Archdeacon  Hare. 

Do  good  by  stealth,  and  blush  to  find  it  fame. 

—  Pope. 

Goodness  thinks  no  ill  where  no  ill  seems.  —  Mil- 
ton. 

Gossip.  —  A  long-tongued  babbling  gossip.  — 
Shakespeare. 

He  sits  at  home  until  he  has  accumulated  an  in- 
supportable load  of  ennui,  and  then  he  sallies  forth 
to  distribute  it  amongst  his  acquaintance.  —  Collon. 

As  to  people  saying  a  few  idle  words  about  us,  we 
must  not  mind  that,  any  more  than  the  old  church- 
steeple  minds  the  rooks  cawing  about  it.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Government.  The  proper  function  of  a  gov- 
ernment is  to  make  it  easy  for  people  to  do  good 
and  difficult  for  them  to  do  evil.  —  Gladstone. 

Society  cannot  exist  unless  a  controlling  power 
upon  will  and  appetite  be  placed  somewhere;  and 
the  less  of  it  there  is  within,  the  more  there  must  be 
without.  It  is  ordained  in  the  eternal  constitution 
of  things  that  men  of  intemperate  minds  cannot  be 
free.     Their  passions  forge  their  fetters.  —  Burke. 


GOV  105  GRA 

Government  is  a  contrivance  of  human  wisdom  to 
provide  for  human  wants.  —  Burke. 

Government  owes  its  birth  to  the  necessity  of  pre- 
venting and  repressing  the  injuries  which  the  associ- 
ated individuals  had  to  fear  from  one  another.  It  is 
the  sentinel  who  watches,  in  order  that  the  common 
laborer  be  not  disturbed.  —  Abbe  Rnynal. 

But  I  say  to  you,  and  to  our  whole  country,  and 
to  all  the  crowned  heads  and  aristocratic  powers 
and  feudal  systems  that  exist,  that  it  is  to  self-gov- 
ernment, the  great  principle  of  popular  representa- 
tion and  administration,  the  system  that  lets  in  all 
to  participate  in  the  counsels  that  are  to  assign  the 
good  or  evil  to  all,  that  we  may  owe  what  we  are 
and  what  we  hope  to  be.  —  Daniel  Webster. 

The  culminating  point  of  administration  is  to 
know  well  how  much  power,  great  or  small,  we 
ought  to  use  in  all  circumstances.  —  Montesquieu. 

Of  governments,  that  of  the  mob  is  the  most 
sanguinary,  that  of  soldiers  the  most  expensive,  and 
that  of  civilians  the  most  vexatious. —  Colton.. 

Government,  like  dress,  is  the  badge  of  lost  in- 
nocence ;  the  palaces  of  kings  are  built  on  the  ruins 
of  the  bowers  of  para<lise.  For  were  the  impulses 
of  conscience  clear,  uniform,  and  irresistibly  obeyed, 
man  would  need  no  other  lawgiver ;  but  that  not 
being  the  ease,  he  finds  it  necessary  to  surrender  up 
a  part  of  his  property  to  furnish  means  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  rest,  and  this  he  is  induced  to  do  by 
the  same  prudence  which  in  every  other  case  advises 
him  out  of  two  evils  to  choose  the  least.  —  Thomas 
Paine. 

Grace.  —  As  amber  attracts  a  straw,  so  does 
beauty  admiration,  which  only  lasts  while  the  warmth 
continues;  but  virtue,  wisdom,  goodness,  and  real 
worth,  like  the  loadstone,  never  lose  their  power. 
These  are  the  true  graces,  which,  as  Homer  feigns, 
are  linked  and  tied  hand  in  hand,  because  it  is  by 
their  influence  that  human  hearts  are  so  firmly  united 
to  each  other. — Burton. 


GKA  106  GRA 

The  king-becoming  graces  —  devotion,  patience, 
courage,  fortitude.  —  Shakespeare. 

Know  you  not,  master,  to  some  kind  of  men  their 
graces  serve  them  but  as  enemies?  No  more  do 
yours ;  your  virtues,  gentle  master,  are  sanctified 
and  holy  traitors  to  you.  Oh,  what  a  world  is  this, 
when  what  is  comely  envenoms  him  that  bears  it!  — 
Shakespeare. 

How  inimitably  graceful  children  are  before  they 
learn  to  dance !  —  Coleridge. 

That  word,  grace,  in  an  ungracious  mouth,  is  but 
profane.  —  Shakespeare. 

Grace  comes  as  oft  clad  in  the  dusky  robe  of  deso- 
lation as  in  white  attire.  —  Sir  J.  Beaumont. 

Gratitude.  —  Gratitude  is  a  fruit  of  great  cul- 
tivation ;  you  do  not  find  it  among  gross  people.  — 
Johnson. 

God  is  pleased  with  no  music  below  so  much  as 
the  thanksgiving  songs  of  relieved  widows  and  sup- 
ported orphans;  of  rejoicing,  comforted,  and  thank- 
ful persons.  — Jeremy  Taylor. 

No  metaphysician  ever  felt  the  deficiency  of  lan- 
guage so  much  as  the  grateful.  —  Colton. 

Thus  love  is  the  most  easy  and  agreeable,  and 
gratitude  the  most  humiliating,  affection  of  the  mind  : 
we  never  reflect  on  the  man  we  love  without  exult- 
ing in  our  choice,  while  he  who  has  bound  us  to  him 
by  benefits  alone  rises  to  our  ideas  as  a  person  to 
whom  we  have  in  some  measure  forfeited  our  free- 
dom. —  Goldsmith. 

Gratitude  is  the  virtue  most  deified  and  most  de- 
serted. It  is  the  ornament  of  rhetoric  and  the  libel 
of  practical  life.  —  J.  W.  Forney. 

Grave.  —  Since  the  silent  shore  awaits  at  last 
even  those  who  longest  miss  the  old  Archer's  arrow, 
perhaps  the  early  grave  which  men  weep  over  may 
be  meant  to  save.  —  Byron. 


GRA  107  GRE 

The  grave  is,  I  suspect,  the  sole  commonwealth 
which  attains  that  dead  flat  of  social  equality  that 
life  in  its  every  principle  so  heartily  abhors;  and 
that  equality  the  grave  will  perpetuate  to  the  end 
of  time. — Bulwer-Lytton. 

The  reconciling  grave.  —  Southern. 

The  grave  where  even  the  great  find  rest.  — Pope. 

Oh,  how  small  a  portion  of  earth  will  hold  us  when 
we  are  dead,  who  ambitiously  seek  after  the  whole 
world  while  we  are  living !  —  Philip ,  King  of  Macedon, 

The  cradle  of  transformation.  — Mazzini. 

The  graves  of  those  we  have  loved  and  lost  dis- 
tress and  console  us. — Arsene  Houssaye. 

Gravity.  —  The  very  essence  of  gravity  is  de- 
sign, and  consequently  deceit ;  a  taught  trick  to  gain 
credit  with  the  world  for  more  sense  and  knowledge 
than  a  man  is  worth.  —  Sterne. 

Gravity  is  but  the  rind  of  wisdom ;  but  it  is  a  pre- 
servative riud.  —  Jouhert. 

Gravity  must  be  natural  and  simple.  There  must 
be  urbanity  and  tenderness  in  it.  A  man  must  not 
formalize  on  everything.  He  who  formalizes  on 
everything  is  a  fool,  and  a  grave  fool  is  perhaps 
more  injurious  than  a  light  fool.  —  Cecil. 

Greatness.  —  There  is  but  one  method,  and 
that  is  hard  labor;  and  a  man  who  will  not  pay  that 
price  for  greatness  had  better  at  once  dedicate  him- 
self to  the  pursuit  of  the  fox,  or  sport  with  the  tan- 
gles of  Neaera's  hair,  or  talk  of  bullocks,  and  glory 
in  the  goad!  —  Sidney  Smith. 

A  really  great  man  is  known  by  three  signs,  — gen- 
erosity in  the  design,  humanity  in  the  execution, 
and  moderation  in  success.  —  Bismarck. 

The  great  men  of  the  earth  are  but  the  marking 
stones  on  the  road  of  humanity;  they  are  the  priests 
of  its  religion.  — Mazzini, 


GRE  108  GRE 

A  multitude  o£  eyes  will  narrowly  inspect  every 
part  of  an  eminent  man,  consider  him  nicely  in  all 
views,  and  not  be  a  little  pleased  when  they  have 
taken  him  in  the  worst  and  most  disadvantageous 
lights.  —  Addison. 

What  you  can  manufacture,  or  communicate,  you 
can  lower  the  price  of,  but  this  mental  supremacy  is 
incommunicable;  you  will  never  multiply  its  quan- 
tity, nor  lower  its  price;  and  nearly  the  best  thing 
that  men  can  generally  do  is  —  to  set  themselves, 
not  to  the  attainment,  but  the  discovery  of  this  ; 
learning  to  know  gold,  when  we  see  it,  from  iron- 
glance,  and  diamond  from  flint-sand,  being  for  most 
of  us  a  more  profitable  employment  than  trying  to 
make  diamonds  out  of  our  own  charcoal.  —  Ruskin. 

Men  in  great  place  are  thrice  servants:  servants 
of  the  sovereign  or  state,  servants  of  fame,  and 
servants  of  business ;  so  as  they  have  no  freedom, 
neither  in  their  persons,  nor  in  their  actions,  nor  in 
their  times.  It  is  a  strange  desire  to  seek  power 
over  others,  and  to  lose  power  over  a  man's  self. 
—  Bacon. 

The  difference  between  one  man  and  another  is 
by  no  means  so  great  as  the  superstitious  crowd  sup*, 
poses.  But  the  same  feelings  which  in  ancient  Rome 
produced  the  apotheosis  of  a  popular  emperor,  and 
in  modern  times  the  canonization  of  a  devout  prel- 
ate, lead  men  to  cherish  an  illusion  which  furnishes 
them  with  something  to  adore.  — Macaulay. 

Great  men  never  make  a  bad  use  of  their  superior- 
ity; they  see  it,  they  feel  it,  and  are  not  less  mod- 
est. The  more  they  have,  the  more  they  know  their 
own  deficiencies.  —  Rousseau. 

He  who  is  great  when  he  falls  is  great  in  his 
prostration,  and  is  no  more  an  object  of  contempt 
than  when  men  tread  on  the  ruins  of  sacred  build- 
ings, which  men  of  piety  venerate  no  less  than  if 
they  stood.  —  Seneca, 


GRE 


109  GUI 


Greatness  lies  not  in  being  strong,  but  in  the  right 
using  of  strength.  —  Beecher. 

Greatness  seems  in  her  [Madame  de  Maintenon] 
to  take  its  noblest  form,  that  of  simplicity.  —  BuL- 
wer-Lytton. 

Grief.  —  Why  destroy  present  happiness  by  a 
distant  misery,  which  may  never  come  at  all,  or  you 
may  never  live  to  see  it  ?  for  every  substantial  grief 
has  twenty  shadows,  and  most  of  them  shadows  of 
your  own  making.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Some  griefs  are  medicinable ;  and  this  is  one. — 
Shakespeare. 

While  grief  is  fresh,  every  attempt  to  divert  only 
irritates.  You  must  wait  till  grief  be  digested.  And 
then  amusement  will  dissipate  the  remains  of  it.  — 
Johnson. 

Grief  hallows  hearts,  even  while  it  ages  heads.  — 
P.  J.  Bailey. 

All  the  joys  of  earth  will  not  assuage  our  thirst  for 
happiness,  while  a  single  grief  suffices  to  shroud  life 
in  a  sombre  veil,  and  smite  it  with  nothingness  at  all 
points.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Grief  has  been  compared  to  a  hydra,  for  every 
one  that  dies  two  are  born. —  Colder  on. 

Grief,  like  night,  is  salutary.  It  cools  down  the 
soul  by  putting  out  its  feverish  fires;  and  if  it  op- 
presses her,  it  also  compresses  her  energies.  The 
load  once  gone,  she  will  go  forth  with  greater  buoy- 
ancy to  new  pleasures.  —  Dr.  Pulsford. 

What's  gone,  and  what's  past  help,  should  be 
past  grief.  —  Shakespeare. 

Guilt.  —  All  the  perfumes  of  Arabia  will  not 
sweeten  this  little  hand.  —  Shakespeare. 

Think  not  that  guilt  requires  the  burning  torches 
of  the  Furies  to  agitate  and  torment  it.  Frauds, 
crimes,  remembrances  of  the  past,  terrors  of  the  fut- 
ure, —  these  are  the  domestic  Furies  that  are  ever 
present  to  the  mind  of  the  impious.  —  Cicero. 


GUI  110  HAB 

Guiltiness  will  speak  though  tongues  were  out  of 
use.  —  Shakespeare. 

Despair  alone  makes  guilty  men  be  bold.  —  Cole- 
ridge. 

The  sin  lessens  in  human  estimation  only  as  the 
guilt  increases,  —  Schiller. 

There  are  no  greater  prudes  than  those  women 
who  have  some  secret  to  hide.  —  George  Sand. 

Gunpovrder.  —  If  we  contrast  the  rapid 
progress  of  this  mischievous  discovery  with  the  slow 
and  laborious  advances  of  reason,  science,  and  the 
arts  of  peace,  a  philosopher,  according  to  his  tem- 
per, will  laugh  or  weep  at  the  folly  of  mankind.  — 
Gibbon. 

A  coarse-grained  powder,  used  by  cross-grained 
people,  playing  at  cross-grained  purposes.  —  Mar- 
ryatt. 

Gunpowder  is  the  emblem  of  politic  revenfre,  for 
it  biteth  first,  and  barketh  afterwards;  the  bullet  be- 
ing at  the  mark  before  the  report  is  heard,  so  that 
it  maketh  a  noise,  not  by  way  of  warning,  but  of 
triumph.  —  Fuller. 

H. 

Habits .  —  Habits  are  soon  assumed;  but  when 
we  strive  to  strip  them  off,  't  is  being  flayed  alive. 
—  Cowper. 

Vicious  habits  are  so  odious  and  degrading  that 
they  transform  the  individual  who  practices  them 
into  an  incarnate  demon. —  Cicero. 

Unless  the  habit  leads  to  happiness,  the  best  habit 
is  to  contract  none.  —  Zimmerman. 

The  law  of  the  harvest  is  to  reap  more  than 
you  sow.  Sow  an  act  and  you  reap  a  habit  ;  sow  a 
habit  and  you  reap  a  character ;  sow  a  character  and 
you  reap  a  destiny.  —  George  D.  Boardman. 


HAB  111  HAN 

Habit,  if  wisely  and  skillfully  formed,  becomes 
truly  a  second  nature,  as  the  common  saying  is  ; 
but  unskillfuUy  and  unmethodically  directed,  it  will 
be  as  it  were  the  ape  of  nature,  which  imitates  noth- 
ing to  the  life,  but  only  clumsily  and  awkwardly.  — 
Bacon. 

That  beneficent  harness  of  routine  which  enables 
silly  men  to  live  respectably  and  unhappy  men  to 
live  calmly.  —  George  Eliot. 

Habits  are  the  daughters  of  action,  but  they  nurse 
their  mothers,  and  give  birth  to  daughters  after  her 
image,  more  lovely  and  prosperous. — Jeremy  Taylor. 

Hair.  —  The  hair  is  the  finest  ornament  women 
have.  Of  old,  virgins  used  to  wear  it  loose,  except 
when  they  were  in  mourning.  —  Luther. 

Her  head  was  bare,  but  for  her  native  ornament 
of  hair,  which  in  a  simple  knot  was  tied  above; 
sweet  negligence,  unheeded  bait  of  love! — Dry- 
den. 

The  robe  which  curious  nature  weaves  to  hang 
upon  the  head.  —  Dekker. 

Robed  in  the  long  night  of  her  deep  hair.  —  Ten- 
nyson. 

Hand.  —  Other  parts  of  the  body  assist  the 
speaker,  but  these  speak  themselves.  By  them  we 
ask,  we  promise,  we  invoke,  we  dismiss,  we  threaten, 
we  entreat,  we  deprecate ;  we  express  fear,  joy, 
grief,  our  doubts,  our  assent,  our  penitence;  we  show 
moderation,  profusion  ;  we  mark  number  and  time. 
—  Quintilian. 

The  Greeks  adored  their  gods  by  the  simple  com- 
pliment of  kissing  their  hands;  and  the  Romans  were 
treated  as  atheists  if  they  would  not  perform  the 
same  act  when  they  entered  a  temple.  This  custom, 
however,  as  a  religious  ceremony,  declined  with  Pa- 
ganism ;  but  was  continued  as  a  salutation  by  infe- 


HAN  112  HAP 

riors  to  their  superiors,  or  as  a  token  of  esteem  among 
friends.  At  present  it  is  only  practiced  as  a  mark 
of  obedience  from  the  subject  to  the  sovereign,  and 
by  lovers,  who  are  solicitous  to  preserve  this  ancient 
usage  in  its  fullj)ower.  —  Disraeli. 

Handsome.^- They  are  as  heaven  made  them, 
handsome  enough  if  they  be  good  enough  ;  for  hand- 
some is  that  handsome  does.  —  Goldsmith. 

Happiness.  —  The  foundation  of  domestic  hap- 
piness is  faith  in  the  virtue  of  woman  ;  the  foun- 
dation of  political  happiness  is  confidence  in  the 
integrity  of  man  ;  the  foundation  of  all  happiness, 
temporal  and  eternal,  is  reliance  on  the  goodness  of 
God.  — Landor. 

To  remember  happiness  which  cannot  be  restored 
is  pain,  but  of  a  softened  kind.  Our  recollections 
are  unfortunately  mingled  with  much  that  we  de- 
plore, and  with  many  actions  that  we  bitterly  repent; 
still,  in  the  most  checkered  life,  I  firmly  think  there 
•are  so  many  little  rays  of  sunshine  to  look  back  upon 
that  I  do  not  believe  any  mortal  would  deliberately 
drain  a  goblet  of  the  waters  of  Lethe  if  he  had  it  in 
his  power.  —  Dickens. 

That  man  is  never  happy  for  the  present  is  so  true 
that  all  his  relief  from  unhappiness  is  only  forgetting 
himself  for  a  little  while.  Life  is  a  progress  from 
want  to  want,  not  from  enjoyment  to  enjoyment.  — 
Johnson. 

It  is  a  lucky  eel  that  escapes  skinning.  The  best 
happiness  will  be  to  escape  the  worst  misery.  — 
George  Eliot. 

That  all  who  are  happy  are  equally  happy  is  not 
true.  A  peasant  and  a  philosopher  may  be  equally 
satisfied^  but  not  equally  happy.  Happiness  con- 
sists in  the  multiplicity  of  agreeable  consciousness. 
A  peasant  has  not  capacity  for  having  equal  happi- 
ness with  a  philosopher.  —  Johnson. 


HAP  113  HAP 

Happiness  doats  on  her  work,  and  is  prodigal  to 
her  favorite.  As  one  drop  of  water  hath  an  attrac- 
tion for  another,  so  do  felicities  run  into  felicities.  — 
Landor. 

Sensations  sweet,  felt  in  the  blood,  and  felt  along 
the  heart.  — Wordsworth. 

Great  happiness  is  the  fire  ordeal  of  mankind, 
great  misfortune  only  the  trial  by  water;  for  the 
former  opens  a  large  extent  of  futurity,  whereas  the 
latter  circumscribes  or  closes  it.  —  Richter. 

Prospective  happiness  is  perhaps  the  only  real 
happiness  in  the  world.  — Alfred  de  Musset. 

Nature  and  individuals  are  generally  best  when 
they  are  happiest,  and  deserve  heaven  most  when 
they  have  learnt  rightly  to  enjoy  it.  Tears  of  sor- 
row are  only  pearls  of  inferior  value,  but  tears  of 
joy  are  pearls  or  diamonds  of  the  first  water.  — 
Richter. 

How  many  people  I  have  seen  who  would  have 
plucked  cannon-balls  out  of  the  muzzles  of  guns  with 
their  bare  hands,  and  yet  had  not  courage  enough  to 
be  happy.  —  Theophile  Gautier. 

All  mankind  are  happier  for  having  been  happy, 
so  that,  if  you  make  them  happy  now,  you  make 
them  happy  twenty  years  hence  by  the  memory  of 
it.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

We  are  no  longer  happy  so  soon  as  we  wish  to  be 
happier.  —  Lamotte. 

1  have  now  reigned  above  fifty  years  in  victory  or 
peace,  beloved  by  my  subjects,  dreaded  by  my  ene- 
mies, and  respected  by  my  allies.  Riches  and  hon- 
ors, power  and  pleasure,  have  waited  on  my  call, 
nor  does  any  earthly  blessing  appear  to  have  been 
wanting  to  my  felicity.  In  this  situation,  I  have  dili- 
gently numbered  the  days  of  pure  and  genuine  hap- 
piness which  have  fallen  to  my  lot :  they  amount  to 
fourteen.  O  man,  place  not  thy  confidence  in  this 
present  world  1—  TAe  Caliph  Ahdalrahman. 


HAP  114  HAP 

If  I  may  speak  of  myself  (the  only  person  of  whom 
I  can  speak  with  certainty),  my  happy  hours  have 
far  exceeded,  and.  far  exceed,  the  scanty  numbers 
of  the  caliph  of  Spain  ;  and  I  shall  not  scruple  to 
add  that  many  of  them  are  due  to  the  pleasing  labor 
of  the  present  composition.  —  Gibbon. 

For  which  we  bear  to  live,  or  dare  to  die.  —  Pope, 

We  buy  wisdom  with  happiness,  and  who  would 
purchase  it  at  such  a  price  ?  To  be  happy  we  must 
forget  the  past,  and  think  not  of  the  future  ;  and 
who  that  has  a  soul  or  mind  can  do  this  ?  No  one  ; 
and  this  proves  that  those  who  have  either  know  no 
happiness  on  this  earth.  Memory  precludes  happi- 
ness, whatever  Rogers  may  say  or  write  to  the  con- 
trary, for  it  borrows  from  the  past  to  embitter  the 
present,  bringing  back  to  us  all  the  grief  that  has 
most  wounded,  or  the  happiness  that  has  most 
charmed  us.  —  Byron. 

The  happiness  you  wot  of  is  not  a  hundredth  part 
of  what  you  enjoy.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Every  human  soul  has  the  germ  of  some  flowers 
within  ;  and  they  would  open  if  they  could  only  find 
sunshine  and  free  air  to  expand  in.  I  always  told 
you  that  not  having  enough  of  sunshine  was  what 
ailed  the  world.  Make  people  happy,  and  there  will 
not  be  half  the  quarreling,  or  a  tenth  part  of  the 
wickedness  there  is.  —  Mrs.  L.  M.  Child. 

Comparison,  more  than  reality,  makes  men  happy, 
and  can  make  them  wretched.  —  Fellham. 

Happiness  and  misery  are  the  names  of  two  ex- 
tremes, the  utmost  bounds  whereof  we  know  not.  — 
Locke. 

There  comes  forever  something  between  us  and 
what  we  deem  our  happiness.  —  Byron. 

Philosophical  happiness  is  to  want  little ;  civil  or 
vulgar  happiness  is  to  want  much,  and  to  enjoy 
much.  —  Burke. 


HAP  115  HAS 

How  sad  a  sight  is  human  happiness  to  those 
whose  thoughts  can  pierce  beyond  an  hour.  — Young. 

Plenteous  joys,  wanton  in  fulhiess.  —  Shakespeare. 

Happiness  is  always  the  inaccessible  castle  which 
sinks  in  ruin  when  we  set  foot  on  it. — Arsene  Hous- 
saye. 

For  ages  happiness  has  been  represented  as  a 
huge  precious  stone,  impossible  to  find,  which  people 
seek  for  hopelessly.  It  is  not  so  ;  happiness  is  a. 
mosaic,  composed  of  a  thousand  little  stones,  which 
separately  and  of  themselves  have  little  value,  but 
which  unil:ed  with  art  form  a  graceful  design.  — 
Mine,  de  Girardin. 

The  happiest  women,  like  the  happiest  nations, 
have  no  history. —  George  Eliot. 

The  way  to  bliss  lies  not  on  beds  of  down. — 
Quarles. 

The  use  we  make  of  happiness  gives  us  an  eter- 
nal sentiment  of  satisfaction  or  repentance. — Rous- 
seau. 

Happiness  is  where  we  find  it,  but  rarely  where 
we  seek  it.  —  J.  Petit  Senn. 

In  regard  to  the  affairs  of  mortals,  there  is  nothing 
happy  throughout.  —  Euripides. 

Hardship.  —  The  beginning  of  hardship  is 
like  the  first  taste  of  bitter  food,  — it  seems  for  a 
moment  unbearable;  yet,  if  there  is  nothing  else  to 
satisfy  our  hunger,  we  take  another  bite  and  find  it 
possible  to  go  on.  —  George  Eliot. 

Haste.  —  Let  your  haste  commend  your  duty. 
—  Shakespeare. 

The  more  haste  ever  the  worst  speed.  —  Churchill. 

Hurry  and  cunning  are  the  two  apprentices  of 
dispatch  and  skill;  but  neither  of  them  ever  learn 
their  master's  trade.  —  Colton. 

All  haste  implies  weakness.  —  George  MacDonald. 


HAT  116  HEA 

Hatred.  —  We  hate  some  persons  because  we 
do  not  know  them;  and  we  will  not  know  them  be- 
cause we  hate  them. —  CoUon. 

Were  one  to  ask  me  in  which  direction  I  think 
man  strongest,  I  should  say,  his  capacity  to  hate.  — 
Beecher. 

Love  is  rarely  a  hypocrite.  But  hate!  how  de- 
tect, and  how  guard  against  it.  It  lurks  where  you 
least  expect  it;  it  is  created  by  causes  that  you  can 
the  least  foresee;  and  civihzation  multiplies  its  va- 
rieties whilst  it  favors  its  disguise;  for  civilization 
increases  the  number  of  contending  interests,  and 
refinement  renders  more  susceptible  to  the  least  ir- 
ritation the  cuticle  of  self-love. — Bulwer-Lytton. 

Hatred  is  like  fire  —  it  makes  even  light  rubbish 
deadly.  —  George  Eliot. 

Health.  —  Be  it  remembered  that  man  subsists 
upon  the  air  more  than  upon  his  meat  and  drink; 
but  no  one  can  exist  for  an  hour  without  a  copious 
supply  of  air.  The  atmosphere  which  some  breathe 
is  contaminated  and  adulterated,  and  with  its  vital 
principles  6o  diminished,  that  it  cannot  fully  decar- 
bonize the  blood,  nor  fully  excite  the  nervous  sys- 
tem. — Thackeray. 

Those  hypochondriacs,  who,  like  Herodius,  give 
up  their  whole  time  and  thoughts  to  the  care  of 
their  health,  sacrifice  unto  life  every  noble  purpose 
of  living;  striving  to  support  a  frail  and  feverish 
being  here,  they  neglect  an  hereafter;  they  continue 
to  patch  up  and  repair  their  mouldering  tenement 
of  clay,  regardless  of  the  immortal  tenant  that  must 
survive  it ;  agitated  by  greater  fears  than  the  Apos- 
tle, and  supported  by  none  of  his  hopes,  they  "  die 
daily."  —  Colton. 

Refuse  to  be  ill.  Never  tell  people  you  are  ill; 
never  own  it  to  yourself.  Illness  is  one  of  those 
things  which  a  man  should  resist  on  principle  at  the 
onset.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


HE  A  117  HEA 

Health  is  so  necessary  to  all  the  duties,  as  well  as 
pleasures,  of  life,  that  the  crime  of  squandering  it  is 
equal  to  the  folly.  —  Johnson. 

There  are  two  things  in  Hfe  that  a  sage  must  pre- 
serve at  every  sacrifice,  the  coats  of  his  stomach  and 
the  enamel  of  his  teeth.  Some  evils  admit  of  con- 
solations :  there  are  no  comforters  for  dyspepsia  and 
the  toothache.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Heart.  —  The  heart  is  like  the  tree  that  gives 
balm  for  the  wounds  of  man  only  when  the  iron  has 
pierced  it. —  Chauteaubriand. 

The  heart  is  an  astrologer  that  always  divines  the 
truth.  —  Calderon. 

There  are  treasures  laid  up  in  the  heart,  —  treas- 
ures of  charity,  piety,  temperance,  and  soberness. 
These  treasures  a  man  takes  with  him  beyond  death 
when  he  leaves  this  world.  —  Buddhist  Scriptures. 

In  aught  that  tries  the  heart,  how  few  withstand 
the  proof  !  —  Byron. 

The  hearts  of  pretty  women  are  like  bonbons, 
wrapped  up  in  enigmas.  — /.  Petit  Senn. 

A  loving  heart  is  the  truest  wisdom.  —  Dickens. 

To  judge  human  character  rightly,  a  man  may 
sometimes  have  very  small  experience,  provided  he 
has  a  very  large  heart.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

The  heart  has  reasons  that  reason  does  not  under- 
stand. —  Bossuet. 

There  are  chords  in  the  human  heart,  strange, 
varying  strings,  which  are  only  struck  by  accident  ; 
which  will  remain  mute  and  senseless  to  appeals  the 
most  passionate  and  earnest,  and  respond  at  last  to 
the  slightest  casual  touch.  In  the  most  insensible 
or  childish  minds  there  is  some  train  of  reflection 
which  art  can  seldom  lead,  or  skill  assist,  but  which 
will  reveal  itself,  as  great  truths  have  done,  by 
chance,  and  when  the  discoverer  has  the  plainest 
and  simplest  end  in  view.  —  Dickens. 


HEA  118  HEB 

A  willing  heart  adds  feathers  to  the  heel,  and 
makes  the  clown  a  winged  Mercury. — Joanna  Ba'dlie, 

Some  people's  hearts  are  shrunk  in  them  like 
dried  nuts.  You  can  hear  'em  rattle  as  they  walk.  — 
Douglas  Jerrold. 

Heaven.  —  The  love  of  heaven  makes  one  heav- 
enly. —  Shakespeare. 

Where  is  heaven?  I  cannot  tell.  Even  to  the 
eye  of  faith,  heaven  looks  much  like  a  star  to  the 
eye  of  flesh.  Set  there  on  the  brow  of  night,  it 
shines  most  bright,  most  beautiful:  but  it  is  separated 
from  us  by  so  great  a  distance  as  to  be  raised  almost 
as  high  above  our  investigations  as  above  the  storms 
and  clouds  of  earth.  —  Reu.  Dr.  Guthrie. 

When  at  eve  at  the  bounding  of  the  landscape 
the  heavens  appear  to  recline  so  slowly  on  the  earth, 
imagination  pictures  beyond  the  horizon  an  asylum 
of  hope,  —  a  native  land  of  love  ;  and  nature  seems 
silently  to  repeat  that  man  is  immortal. — Madame 
de  Stael. 

Few,  without  the  hope  of  another  life,  would  think 
it  worth  their  while  to  live  above  the  allurements  of 
sense.  —  Atterhury. 

Heaven  is  a  place  of  restless  activity,  the  abode  of 
never-tiring  thought.  David  and  Isaiah  will  sweep 
nobler  and  loftier  strains  in  eternity,  and  the  minds 
of  the  saints,  unclogged  by  cumbersome  clay,  will 
forever  feast  on  the  banquet  of  rich  and  glorious 
thought.  —  Beecher. 

Heroes.  —  A  light  supper,  a  good  night's  sleep, 
and  a  fine  morning  have  often  made  a  hero  of  the 
same  man  who,  by  indigestion,  a  restless  night,  and 
a-  rainy  morning  would  have  proved  a  coward.  — 
Chesterfield. 

In  analyzing  the  character  of  heroes  it  is  hardly 
possible  to  separate  altogether  the  share  of  Fortune 
from  their  own.  —  Hallam. 


HER  119  HIS 

Mankind  is  not  disposed  to  look  narrowly  into  the 
conduct  of  great  victors  when  their  victory  is  on  the 
right  side.  —  George  Eliot. 

No  one  is  a  hero  to  his  valet.  —  Madame  de  Se- 
vigne. 

History.  —  The  Grecian  history  is  a  poem, 
Latin  history  a  picture,  modern  history  a  chronicle. 
—  Chauteaubriand. 

If  men  could  learn  from  history,  what  lessons  it 
might  teach  us  !  But  passion  and  party  blind  our 
eyes,  and  the  light  which  experience  gives  is  a  lan- 
tern on  the  stern,  which  shines  only  on  the  waves 
behind  us !  —  Coleridge. 

History,  which  is,  indeed,  little  more  than  the 
register  of  the  crimes,  follies,  and  misfortunes  of 
mankind.  —  Gibbon. 

We  must  consider  how  very  little  history  there  is ; 
I  mean  real,  authentic  history.  That  certain  kings 
reigned  and  certain  battles  were  fought  we  can  de- 

{)end  upon  as  true  ;  but  all  the  coloring,  all  the  phi- 
osophy  of  history,  is  conjecture. — Johnson. 

History  needs  distance,  perspective.  Facts  and 
evejits  which  are  too  well  attested  cease,  in  some 
sort,  to  be  malleable.  —  Joubert. 

To  be  entirely  just  in  our  estimate  of  other  ages 
is  not  only  difficult,  — it  is  impossible.  Even  what 
is  passing  in  our  presence  we  see  but  through  a  glass 
darkly.  The  mind  as  well  as  the  eye  adds  something 
of  its  own  before  an  image,  even  of  the  clearest 
object,  can  be  painted  upon  it ;  and  in  historical 
inquiries  the  most  instructed  thinkers  have  but  a 
limited  advantage  over  the  most  illiterate.  Those 
who  know  the  most  approach  least  to  agreement.  •^- 
Froude. 

The  impartiality  of  history  is  not  that  of  the  mir- 
ror which  merely  reflects  objects,  but  of  the  judge 
who  sees,  listens,  and  decides.  —  Lamarline. 


HIS  120  HOM 

In  every  human  character  and  transaction  there 
is  a  mixture  of  good  and  evil :  a  little  exaggeration, 
a  little  suppression,  a  judicious  use  of  epithets,  a 
watchful  and  searching  skepticism  with  respect  to 
the  evidence  on  one  side,  a  convenient  credulity 
with  respect  to  every  report  or  tradition  on  the  other, 
may  easily  make  a  saint  of  Laud,  or  a  tyrant  of 
Henry  the  Fourth.  — Macaulay. 

History  is  but  a  kind  of  Newgate  calendar,  a  reg- 
ister of  the  crimes  and  miseries  that  man  has  in- 
flicted on  his  fellow-man.  — Washington  Irving. 

History  has  its  foreground  and  its  background, 
and  it  is  principally  in  the  management  of  its  per- 
spective that  one  artist  differs  from  another.  Some 
events  must  be  represented  on  a  large  scale,  others 
diminished  ;  the  great  majority  will  be  lost  in  the 
dimness  of  the  horizon,  and  a  general  idea  of  their 
joint  effect  will  be  given  by  a  few  slight  touches.  — 
Macaulay. 

Violent  natures  make  history.  The  instruments 
they  use  almost  always  kill.  Religion  and  philos- 
ophy have  their  vestments  covered  with  innocent 
blood.  —  X.  Doudan. 

Each  generation  gathers  together  the  imperishable 
children  of  the  past,  and  increases  them  by  new  sons 
of  light,  alike  radiant  with  immortality.  —  Bancroft. 

What  history  is  not  richer,  does  not  contain  far 
more,  than  they  by  whom  it  is  enacted,  the  present 
witnesses  !  What  mortal  understandeth  his  way?  — 
Jacohi. 

He  alone  reads  history  aright,  who,  observing  how 
powerfully  circumstances  influence  the  feelincrs  and 
opinions  of  men,  how  often  vices  pass  into  virtues, 
and  paradoxes  into  axioms,  learns  to  distinguish 
what  is  accidental  and  transitory  in  human  nature 
from  what  is  essential  and  immutable.  —  Macaulay. 

Home.  —  Home  is  the  grandest  of  all  institu- 
tions. —  Spurgeon. 


HOM  121  HON 

The  first  sure  symptom  of  a  mind  in  health  is  rest 
of  heart,  and  pleasure  felt  at  home.  — Young. 

To  most  men  their  early  home  is  no  more  than  a 
memory  of  their  early  years,  and  I  'm  not  sure  but 
they  have  the  best  of  it.  The  image  is  never  marred. 
There  's  no  disappointment  in  memory,  and  one's 
exaggerations  are  always  on  the  good  side.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Be  it  ever  so  humble,  there  's  no  place  like  home. 
—  Payne. 

Stint  yourself,  as  you  think  good,  in  other  things; 
but  don't  scruple  freedom  in  brightening  home.  Gay 
furniture  and  a  brilliant  garden  are  a  sight  day  by 
day,  and  make  life  blither.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Home  is  the  seminary  of  all  other  institutions.  — 
Chapin. 

Honesty.  —  If  he  does  really  think  that  there 
is  no  distinction  between  virtue  and  vice,  why,  sir, 
when  he  leaves  our  houses  let  us  count  our  spoons. 
— Johnson. 

Persons  lightly  dipped,  not  grained,  in  generous 
honesty,  are  but  pale  in  goodness.  —  Sir  T.  Browne. 

Refined  policy  has  ever  been  the  parent  of  confu- 
sion, and  ever  will  be  so,  as  long  as  the  world  en- 
dures. Plain  good  intention,  which  is  as  easily  dis- 
covered at  the  first  view  as  fraud  is  surely  detected 
at  last,  is,  let  me  say,  of  no  mean  force  in  the  gov- 
ernment of  mankind.  (Genuine  simplicity  of  heart 
is  a  healing  and  cementing  principle.  —  Burke. 

Money  dishonestly  acquired  is  never'  worth  its 
cost,  while  a  good  conscience  never  costs  as  much  as 
it  is  worth.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 

The  honest  man  is  a  rare  variety  of  the  human 
species.  —  Chamfort. 

Honor.  — Keep  unscathed  the  good  name,  keep 
out  of  peril  the  honor,  without  which  even  your  bat- 
tered old  soldier,  who  is  hobbling  into  his  grave  on 
half  pay  and  a  wooden  leg,  would  not  change  with 
Achilles.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


HOP  122  HUM 

Hope.  —  Hope  warps  judgment  in  council,  but 
quickens  energy  in  action.  —  Bulwer-Lytion. 

"  I  have  a  fine  lot  of  hopes  here  in  my  basket," 
remarked  the  New  Year  ;  *'  they  are  a  sweet-smell- 
ing flower  —  a  species  of  roses."  —  Hawthorne. 

Hope  is  the  most  beneficial  of  all  the  affections, 
and  doth  much  to  the  prolongation  of  life,  if  it  be 
not  too  often  frustrated  ;  but  entfrtaineth  the  fancy 
with  an  expectation  of  good.  —  Bacon. 

The  mighty  hopes  that  make  us  men.  —  Tennyson. 

Thou  captive's  freedom,  and  thou  sick  man's 
health.  —  Cowley. 

I  have  a  knack  of  hoping,  which  is  as  good  as  an 
estate  in  reversion,  if  one  can  keep  from  the  tempta- 
tion of  turning  it  into  certainty,  which  may  spoil  all. 
—  George  Eliot. 

Hope,  folding  her  wings,  looked  backward  and 
became  regret.  —  George  Eliot. 

Hope  is  always  liberal,  and  they  that  trust  her 
promises  make  little  scruple  of  reveling  to-day  on 
the  profits  of  to-morrow.  —  Johnson. 

It  is  necessary  to  hope,  though  hope  should  be 
always  deluded  ;  for  hope  itself  is  happiness  and  its 
frustrations,  however  frequent,  are  yet  less  dreadful 
than  its  extinction.  — Johnson. 

Hope  is  a  delusion  ;  no  hand  can  grasp  a  wave  or 
a  shadow.  — Victor  Hugo. 

Humanity.  —  A  man's  nature  runs  either  to 
herbs  or  weeds:  therefore  let  him  seasonably  water 
the  one  and  destroy  the  other.  —  Bacon. 

I  own  that  there  is  a  haughtiness  and  fierceness 
in  human  nature  which  will  cause  innumerable 
broils,  place  men  in  what  situation  you  please. — 
Burke. 


HUM  123  HUM 

Human  nature  is  not  so  much  depraved  as  to 
hinder  us  from  respecting  goodness  in  others, 
though  we  ouiselves  want  it.  This  is  the  reason 
why  we  are  so  mucli  charmed  with  the  pretty  prat- 
tle of  children,  and  even  the  expressions  of  pleas- 
ure or  uneasiness  in  some  parts  of  the  brute  crea- 
tion. They  are  without  artifice  or  malice;  and  we 
love  truth  too  well  to  resist  the  charms  of  sincerity. 
—  Steele. 

I  do  not  know  what  comfort  other  people  find  in 
considering  the  weakness  of  great  men,  but  'tis  al- 
ways a  mortification  to  me  to  observe  that  there  is 
no  perfection  in  humanity. — Montagu. 

The  true  proof  of  the  inherent  nobleness  of  our 
common  nature  is  in  the  sympathy  it  betrays  with 
what  is  noble  wherever  crowds  are  collected.  Never 
believe  the  world  is  base;  if  it  were  so,  no  society 
could  hold  together  for  a  day. — Bulwer-Lytton. 

Humility.  —  It  is  from  out  the  depths  of  our 
humility  that  the  height  of  our  destiny  looks  grand- 
est. Let  me  truly  feel  that  in  myself  I  am  nothing, 
and  at  once,  through  every  inlet  of  my  soul,  God 
comes  in,  and  is  everything  in  me.  —  Mountford. 

Should  any  ask  me,  What  is  the  first  thing  in 
religion?  I  would  reply.  The  first,  second,  and 
third  thing  therein,  nay  all,  is  humility.  —  St.  Au- 
gustine. 

Epaminondas,  that  heathen  captain,  finding  him- 
self lifted  up  in  the  day  of  his  public  triumph,  the 
next  day  went  drooping  and  hanging  down  his  head; 
but  being  asked  what  was  the  reason  of  his  so  great 
dejection,  made  answer:  "  Yesterday  I  felt  myself 
transported  with  vainglory,  therefore  I  chastise  my- 
self for  it  to-day."  —  Plutarch. 

In  humility  imitate  Jesus  and  Socrates.  —  Frank- 
lin. 

Believe  me,  the  much-praised  lambs  of  humility 
would  not  bear  themselves  so  meekly  if  they  but 
possessed  tigers'  claws.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 


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HUM  124  HYP 

Trees  that,  like  the  poplar,  lift  upwards  all  their 
boughs  give,  no  shade  and  no  shelter,  whatever 
their  height.  Trees  the  most  lovingly  shelter  and 
shade  us  when,  like  the  willow,  tlie  higher  soar 
their  summits,  the  lowlier  droop  their  bows.  —  Bui- 
wer-Lytton. 

If  thou  wouldst  find  much  favor  and  peace  with 
God  and  man,  be  very  low  in  thine  own  eyes.  For- 
give thyself  little  and  others  much.  —  Archbishop 
Leighton. 

Humor.  —  The  genius  of  the  Spanish  people 
is  exquisitely  subtile,  without  being  at  all  acute: 
hence  there  is  so  much  humor  and  so  little  wit  in 
their  literature.  The  genius  of  the  Italians,  on  the 
contraiy,  is  acute,  profound,  and  sensual,  but  not 
subtile;  hence  what  they  think  to  be  humorous  is 
merely  witty.  —  Coleridge. 

The  oil  and  wine  of  merry  meeting.  — Washington 
Irving. 

These  poor  gentlemen  endeavor  to  gain  them- 
selves the  reputation  of  wits  and  humorists,  by  such 
monstrous  conceits  as  almost  qualify  them  for  bed- 
lam; not  considering  that  humor  should  always  lie 
under  the  check  of  reason,  and  that  it  requires  the 
direction  of  the  nicest  judgment,  by  so  much  the 
more  as  it  indulges  itself  in  the  most  boundless  free- 
doms. —  Addison. 

Hyperbole.  —  Sprightly  natures,  full  of  fire, 
and  whom  a  boundless  imagination  carries  beyond 
all  rules,  and  even  what  is  reasonable,  cannot  rest 
satisfied  with  hyperbole.  —  Bruyere. 

Let  us  have  done  with  reproaching ;  for  we  may 
throw  out  so  many  reproachful  words  on  one  another 
that  a  ship  of  a  hundred  oars  would  not  be  able  to 
carry  the  load.  —  Homer. 

Hypocrisy.  —  Whoever  is  a  hypocrite  in  his 
religion  mocks  God,  presenting  to  him  the  outside, 
nnd  reserving  the  inward  for  his  enemy.  —  Jeremy 
Taylor. 


HYP  125  HYP 

Hypocrisy  lias  become  a  fashionable  vice,  and  all. 
fashionable  vices  pass  for  virtue. — MoUere. 

Hypocrisy  is  much  more  eligible  than  open  infidel- 
ity and  vice  :  it  wears  the  livery  of  religion,  and  is 
cautious  of  giving  scandal.  —  Swift. 

Sin  is  not  so  sinful  as  hypocrisy.  —  Mme.  de 
Maintenon. 

As  a  man  loves  gold,  in  that  proportion  he  hates 
to  be  imposed  upon  by  counterfeits ;  and  in  propor-  , 
tion  as  a  man  has  regard  for  that  which  is   above 
price  and  better  than  gold,  he  abhors  that  hypocrisy 
which  is  but  its  counterfeit.  —  Cecil. 

Hypocrisy,  the  only  evil  that  walks  invisible,  ex- 
cept to  God  alone.  — Milton. 

Hypocrisy,  detest  her  as  we  may,  and  no  man's 
hatred  ever  wronged  her  yet,  may  claim  this  merit 
still  :  that  she  admits  the  worth  of  what  she  mimics 
with  such  care.  —  Cowper. 

I  hate  hypocrites,  who  put  on  their  virtues  with 
their  white  gloves.  —  Alfred  de  Musset. 

Such  a  man  will  omit  neither  family  worship,  nor 
a  sneer  at  his  neighbor.  He  will  neither  milk  his 
cows  on  the  first  day  of  the  week  without  a  Sabbath 
mask  on  his  face,  nor  remove  it  while  he  waters  the 
milk  for  his  customers.  —  George  Mac  Donald. 

The  fatal  fact  in  the  case  of  a  hypocrite  is  that 
he  is  a  hypocrite.  —  Chapin. 

'T  is  a  cowardly  and  servile  humor  to  hide  and 
disguise  a  man's  self  under  a  vizor,  and  not  to  dare 
to  show  himself  what  he  is.  By  that  our  followers 
are  train'd  up  to  treachery.  Being  brought  up  to 
speak  what  is  not  true,  they  make  no  conscience  of 
a  lie.  —  Montaigne. 


IDE  126  IDL 


Ideas.  —  After  all  has  been  said  that  can  be 
said  about  the  widening  influence  of  ideas,  it  re- 
mains true  that  they  would  hardly  be  such  strong 
agents  unless  they  were  taken  in  a  solvent  of  feeling. 
Tlie  great  world-struggle  of  developing  thought  is 
continually  foreshadowed  in  the  struggle  of  the  af- 
fections, seeking  a  justification  for  love  and  hope.  — 
George  JEliot. 

Our  ideas  are  transformed  sensations.  —  Condil- 
lac. 

In  these  days  we  fight  for  ideas,  and  newspapers 
are  our  fortresses.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Many  ideas  grow  better  when  transplanted  into 
another  mind  than  in  the  one  where  they  sprung  up. 
That  which  was  a  weed  in  one  intelligence  becomes 
a  flower  in  the  other,  and  a  flower  again  dwindles 
down  to  a  mere  weed  by  the  same  change.  Healthy 
growths  may  become  poisonous  by  falling  upon  the 
wrong  mental  soil,  and  what  seemed  a  night-shade 
in  one  mind  unfolds  as  a  morning-glory  in  the  other. 

—  Holmes. 

A  fixed  idea  is  like  the  iron  rod  which  sculptors 
put  in  their  statues.  It  impales  and  sustains. — 
Taine. 

Old  ideas  are  prejudices,  and  new  ones  caprices. 

—  X.  Doudan. 

We  live  in  an  age  in  which  superfluous  ideas 
abound  and  essential  ideas  are  lacking.  —  Jouhert. 

Ideas  are  like  beards ;  men  do  not  have  them  until 
they  grow  up.  —  Voltaire. 

Our  ideas,  like  orange-plants,  spread  out  in  pro- 
portion to  the  size  of  the  box  which  imprisons  the 
roots.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Idleness.  — If  idleness  do  not  produce  vice  or 
malevolence,  it  commonly  produces  melancholy. — 
Sydney  Smith. 


IDL  127  IGN 

Idleness  is  the  key  of  beggary,  and  the  root  of  all 
evil.  —  Spurgeon. 

In  idleness  there  is  perpetual  despair.  —  Carlyle. 

Doing  nothing  with  a  deal  of  skill.  —  Cowper. 

From  its  very  inaction,  idleness  ultimately  be- 
comes the  most  active  cause  of  evil;  as  a  palsy  is 
more  to  be  dreaded  than  a  fever.  The  Turks  have  a 
proverb,  which  says,  that  the  devil  tempts  all  other 
men,  but  that  idle  men  tempt  the  devil.  —  Colton. 

The  first  external  revelations  of  the  dry-rot  in 
men  is  a  tendency  to  lurk  and  lounge;  to  be  at  street 
corners  without  intelligible  reason ;  to  be  going  any- 
where when  met;  to  be  about  many  places  rather 
than  any  ;  to  do  nothing  tangible  but  to  have  an  in- 
tention of  performing  a  number  of  tangible  duties  to- 
morrow or  the  day  after.  —  Dickens. 

Idleness  is  only  the  refuge  of  weak  minds,  and  the 
holiday  of  fools.  —  Chesterjield. 

So  long  as  idleness  is  quite  shut  out  from  our 
lives,  all  the  sins  of  wantonness,  softness,  and  effe- 
minacy are  prevented  ;  and  there  is  but  little  room 
for  temptation. — Jeremy  Taylor. 

Let  but  the  hours  of  idleness  cease,  and  the  bow 
of  Cupid  will  become  broken  and  his  torch  extin- 
guished. —  Ovid. 

Ignorance.  —  Have  the  courage  to  be  ignorant 
of  a  great  number  of  ^hings,  in  order  to  avoid  the 
calamity  of  being  ignorant  of  everything.  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

There  is  no  calamity  like  ignorance.  —  Richter. 

'Tis  sad  work  to  be  at  that  pass,  that  the  best 
trial  of  truth  must  be  the  multitude  of  believers,  in  a 
crowd  where  the  number  of  fools  so  much  exceeds 
that  of  the  wise.  As  if  anything  were  so  common 
as  ignorance !  —  Montaigne. 

Ignorance,  which  in  behavior  mitigates  a  fault,  is, 
in  literature,  a  capital  offense.  —  Joubert. 


IGN  128  IMA 

There  is  no  slight  danger  from  general  ignorance; 
and  the  only  choice  which  Providence  has  graciously 
left  to  a  vicious  government  is  either  to  fall  hy  the 
people,  if  they  are  suffered  to  become  enlightened, 
or  with  them,  if  they  are  kept  enslaved  and  ignorant. 
—  Coleridge. 

To  be  ignorant  of  one's  ignorance  is  the  malady 
of  ignorance.  —  Alcott. 

The  true  instrument  of  man's  degradation  is  his 
ignorance.  —  Lady  Morgan. 

Ignorance  is  not  so  damnable  as  humbug,  but 
when  it  prescribes  pills  it  may  happen  to  do  more 
barm.  —  George  Eliot. 

The  ignorant  hath  an  eagle's  wings  and  an  owl's 
eyes.  —  George  Herbert. 

Ignorance  is  mere  privation,  by  which  nothing  can 
be  produced;  it  is  a  vacuity  in  which  the  soul  sits 
motionless  and  torpid  for  want  of  attraction.  —  John- 
son. 

Illusion.  —  In  youth  we  feel  richer  for  every 
new  illusion;  in  maturer  years,  for  every  one  we 
lose.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Illusion  is  the  first  of  all  pleasures.  —  Voltaire. 

Imagination.  —  We  are  all  of  us  imaginative 
in  some  form  or  other,  for  images  are  the  brood  of 
desire.  —  George  Eliot. 

A  vile  imagination,  once  indulged,  gets  the  key  of 
our  minds,  and  can  get  in  again  very  easily,  whether 
we  will  or  no,  and  can  so  return  as  to  bring  seven 
other  spirits  with  it  more  wicked  than  itself;  and 
what  may  follow  no  one  knows.  —  Spurgeon, 

He  who  has  imagination  without  learning  has 
wings  and  no  feet.  —  Jouhert. 

No  man  will  be  found  in  whose  mind  airy  notions 
do  not  sometimes  tyrannize,  and  force  him  to  hope 
or  fear  beyond  the  limits  of  sober  probability.  — 
Johnson. 


IMI  129  IMP 

Imitation.  —  Imitators  are  a  servile  race. — 
Fontaine. 

Imitation  causes  us  to  leave  natural  ways  to  enter 
into  artificial  ones  ;  it  therefore  makes  slaves.  —  Dr. 
Vinet. 

*'  Name  to  me  an  animal,  though  never  so  skillful, 
that  I  cannot  imitate!  "  So  bragged  the  ape  to  the 
fox.  But  the  fox  replied,  "  And  do  thou  name  to 
me  an  animal  so  humble  as  to  think  of  imitating 
thee."  —  Lessing. 

Immortality.  —  When  I  consider  the  won- 
derful activity  of  the  mind,  so  great  a  memory  of 
what  is  past,  and  such  a  capacity  of  penetrating 
into  the  future;  when  I  behold  such  a  number  of 
arts  and  sciences,  and  such  a  multitude  of  discov- 
eries thence  arising  ;  I  believe  and  am  firmly  per- 
suaded that  a  nature  which  contains  so  many  things 
within  itself  cannot  be  mortal.  —  Cicero, 

Whatsoever  that  be  within  us  that  feels,  thinks, 
desires,  and  animates,  is  something  celestial,  divine, 
and  consequently  imperishable.  —  Aristotle. 

The  spirit  of  man,  which  God  inspired,  cannot 
together  perish  with  this  corporeal  clod.  —  Milton. 

All  men's  souls  are  immortal,  but  the  souls  of  the 
righteous  are  immortal  and  divine.  —  Socrates. 

What  springs  from  earth  dissolves  to  earth  again, 
and  heaven-born  things  fly  to  their  native  seat.  — 
Marcus  Antoninus. 

The  seed  dies  into  a  new  life,  and  so  does  man. 
—  George  MacDonald. 

Impatience.  —  Impatience  turns  an  ague  into 
a  fever,  a  fever  to  the  plague,  fear  into  despair, 
anger  into  rage,  loss  into  madness,  and  sorrow  to 
amazement.  —  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Impossibility.  —  One  great  difference  be- 
tween a  wise  man  and  a  fool  is,  the  former  only 


IMP  130  IND 

wishes  for  what  he  may  possibly  obtain ;  the  latter 
desires  impossibilities.  —  Democritus. 

Improvement. —  Slumber  not  in  the  tents  of 
your  fathers.  The  world  is  advancing.  Advance 
with  it.  —  Mazzini. 

People  seldom  improve  when  they  have  no  other 
model  but  themselves  to  copy  after.  —  Goldsmith. 

Imiprovidence. —  How  full  or  how  empty  our 
lives,  depends,  we  say,  on  Providence.  Suppose  we 
say,  more  or  less  on  improvidence.  —  Bovee. 

Inco  me. —  Our  incomes  are  like  our  shoes;  if 
too  small,  they  gall  and  pinch  us;  but  if  too  large, 
they  cause  us  to  stumble  and  to  trip.  —  Colton. 

Inconsistency.  —  Men  talk  as  if  they  be- 
lieved in  God,  but  they  live  as  if  they  thought  there 
was  none:  their  vows  and  promises  are  no  more  than 
words  of  course.  —  UEstrange. 

People  are  so  ridiculous  with  their  illusions,  carry- 
ing their  fool's  caps  unawares,  thinking  their  own 
lies  opaque  while  everybody  else's  are  transparent, 
making  themselves  exceptions  to  everything,  as  if 
when  all  the  world  looked  yellow  under  a  lamp  they 
alone  were  rosy.  —  George  Eliot, 

Inconstancy.  —  The  catching  court  disease. 

—  Otway. 

Nothing  that  is  not  a  real  crime  makes  a  man  ap- 
pear so  contemptible  and  little  in  the  eyes  of  the 
world  as  inconstancy.  —  Addison. 

IndifiFerence  . —  Nothing  for  preserving  the 
body  like  having  no  heart.  — J.  Petit  Senn. 

Indifference  is  the  invincible  giant  of  the  world. 

—  Ouida. 

Indigestion.  —  Old  friendships  are  destroyed 
by  toasted  cheese,  and  hard  salted  meat  has  led  to 
suicide.  Unpleasant  feelings  of  the  body  produce 
correspondent  sensations  in  the  mind,  and  a  great 


IND  131  INF 

gcene  of  wretchedness  is  sketched  out  by  a  morsel 
of  indigestible  and  misguided  food.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Individuality.  —  There  are  men  of  convic- 
tions whose  very  faces  will  light  up  an  era,  and 
there  are  believing  women  in  whose  eyes  you  may 
almost  read  the  whole  plan  of  salvation.  — 2\  Fields, 

Individuality  is  everywhere  to  be  spared  and  re- 
spected as  the  root  of  everything  good.  — Richter. 

The  epoch  of  individuality  is  concluded,  and  it 
is  the  duty  of  reformers  to  initiate  the  epoch  of  as- 
sociation. Collective  man  is  omnipotent  upon  the 
earth  he  treads.  —  Mazzini. 

Indolence.  —  I  look  upon  indolence  as  a  sort 
of  suicide;  for  the  man  is  effectually  destroyed, 
though  the  appetite  of  the  brute  may  survive. — 
Chesterfield. 

Lives  spent  in  indolence,  and  therefore  sad.  — 
Cowper. 

Days  of  respite  are  golden  days.  —  South. 

So  long  as  he  must  fight  his  way,  the  man  of 
p^enius  pushes  forward,  conquering  and  to  conquer. 
But  how  often  is  he  at  last  overcome  by  a  Capua! 
Ease  and  fame  bring  sloth  and  slumber.  —  Charles 
Buxton. 

Nothing  ages  like  laziness.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Indulgence.  —  One  wishes  to  be  happy  before 
becoming  wise.  —  Mme.  Necker. 

Industry.  —  Mankind  are  more  indebted  to  in- 
dustry  than  inirenuity  ;  the  gods  set  up  their  favors 
at  a  price,  and  industry  is  the  purchaser. — Addition. 

Application  is  the  price  to  be  paid  for  mental 
acquisition.  To  have  the  harvest  we  must  sow  the 
seed.  —  Bailey. 

Infidelity.  —  There  is  but  one  thing  without 
honor  ;  smitten  with  eternal  barrenness,  inability  to 
do  or  to  be,  —  insincerity,  unbelief.     He  who  be- 


INF  132  INF 

lieves  no  tMng,  who  believes  only  the  shows  of  things, 
is  not  in  relation  with  nature  and  fact  at  all.  —  Car- 
lyle. 

I  would  rather  dwell  in  the  dim  fog  of  superstition 
than  in  air  rarefied  to  nothing  by  the  air-pump  of 
unbelief;  in  which  the  panting  breast  expires,  vainly 
and  convulsively  gasping  for  breath.  —  Richter. 

If  on  one  side  there  are  fair  proofs,  and  no  pre- 
tense of  proof  on  the  other,  and  that  the  difficulties 
are  more  pressing  on  that  side  which  is  destitute  of 
proof,  I  desire  to  know  whether  this  be  not  upon  the 
matter  as  satisfactory  to  a  wise  man  as  a  demonstra- 
tion. —  Tillotson. 

The  nurse  of  infidelity  is  sensuality.  —  Cecil, 

Men  always  grow  vicious  before  they  become  un- 
believers; but  if  you  would  once  convince  profligates 
by  topics  drawn  from  the  view  of  their  own  quiet, 
reputation,  and  health,  their  infidelity  would  soon 
drop  off.  —  Sivift. 

Infidelity  gives  nothing  in  return  for  what  it  takes 
away.  What,  then,  is  it  worth?  Everything  valu- 
able has  a  compensating  power.  Not  a  blade  of 
grass  that  withers,  or  the  ugliest  weed  that  is  flung 
away  to  rot  and  die,  but  reproduces  something. — 
Dr.  Chalmers. 

Infirmities. —  Never  mind  what  a  man's  vir- 
tues are;  waste  no  time  in  learning  them.  Fasten 
at  once  on  his  infirmities.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Influence.  —  He  who  wishes  to  exert  a  useful 
influence  must  be  careful  to  insult  nothing.  Let  him 
not  be  troubled  by  what  seems  absurd,  but  let  him 
consecrate  his  energies  to  the  creation  of  what  is 
good.  He  must  not  demolish,  but  build.  He  must 
raise  temples  where  mankind  may  come  and  par- 
take of  the  purest  pleasures.  —  Goethe. 

If  I  can  put  one  touch  of  a  rosy  sunset  into  the 
life  of  any  man  or  woman,  I  shall  feel  that  I  have 
worked  with  God.  —  George  Mac  Donald. 


INF  133  INK 

The  city  reveals  the  moral  ends  of  being,  and 
sets  the  awful  problem  of  life.  The  country  soothes 
us,  refreshes  us,  lifts  us  up  with  religious  suggestion. 

—  Chapin. 

It  is  the  age  that  forms  the  man,  not  the  man  that 
forms  the  age.  Great  minds  do  indeed  react  on  the 
society  which  has  made  them  what  they  are,  but 
they  only  pay  with  interest  what  they  have  received. 

—  Macaulay. 

In  families  well  ordered  there  is  always  one  firm, 
sweet  temper,  which  controls  without  seeming  to 
dictate.  The  Greeks  represented  Persuasion  as 
crowned.  —  Balwer-Lytton. 

Ingratitude.  —  The  great  bulk  of  mankind 
resemble  the  swine,  which  in  harvest  gather  and  fat- 
ten upon  the  acorns  beneath  the  oak,  but  show  to 
the  tree  which  bore  them  no  other  thanks  than  rub- 
bing off  its  bark,  and  tearing  up  the  sod  around  it. 
— Scrlver. 

One  great  cause  of  our  insensibility  to  the  good- 
ness of  our  Creator  is  the  very  extensiveness  of  his 
bounty.  —  Paley. 

Injustice.  —  The  injustice  of  men  subserves 
the  justice  of  God,  and  often  his  mercy.  — Madame 
Swetchine. 

Ink. —  A  drop  of  ink  may  make  a  million  think. 

—  Byron. 

Let  there  be  gall  enough  in  thy  ink ;  though  thou 
write  with  a  goose-pen,  no  matter.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  colored  slave  that  waits  upon  thought.  —  Mrs. 
Balfour. 

Oh,  she  is  fallen  into  a  pit  of  ink,  that  the  wide 
sea  hath  drops  too  few  to  wash  her  clean  again !  — 
Shakespeare. 

My  ways  are  as  broad  as  the  king's  high  road, 
and  my  means  lie  in  an  inkstand.  —  Southey. 


INN  134  INS 

Innocence.  —  He's  armed  without  that 's  in- 
nocent  within.  —  Pope. 

There  is  no  courage  but  in  innocence.  —  Southern. 

Tliere  is  no  man  so  good  who,  were  he  to  submit 
all  his  thoughts  and  actions  to  the  law,  would  not 
deserve  hanging  ten  times  in  his  life.  —  Montaigne. 

Innovation.  —  The  ridiculous  rage  for  innova- 
tion, which  only  increases  the  weight  of  the  chains 
it  cannot  break,  shall  never  fire  my  blood!  —  ScJiiller. 

Dislike  of  innovation  proceeds  sometimes  from 
the  disgust  excited  by  false  humanity,  canting  hy- 
pocrisy, and  silly  enthusiasm,  — Sydney  Smith. 

Insanity.  —  Insanity  is  not  a  distinct  and 
separate  empire;  our  ordinary  life  borders  upon  it, 
and  we  cross  the  frontier  in  some  part  of  our  nature. 
—  Taine. 

Inspiration.  —  Do  we  not  all  agree  to  call 
rapid  thought  and  noble  impulse  by  the  name  of 
inspiration'?  After  our  subtlest  analysis  of  the 
mental  process,  we  must  still  say  that  our  highest 
thoughts  and  our  best  deeds  are  all  given  to  us.  — 
George  Eliot. 

Contagious  enthusiasm.  —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

Instinct.  —  The  instinct  of  brutes  and  insects 
can  be  the  effect  of  nothing  else  than  the  wisdom 
and  skill  of  a  powerful  ever-living  agent.  — Newton, 

Instinct  harmonizes  the  interior  of  animals  as  re- 
ligion does  the  interior  of  men.  — Jacohi. 

All  our  first  movements  are  good,  generous,  he- 
roical ;  reflection  weakens  and  kills  them.  —  Aim4 
Martin. 

An  instinct  is  a  propensity  prior  to  experience, 
and  independent  of  instruction.  —  Paley. 

Insult.  —  It  is  only  the  vulgar  who  are  always 
fancying  themselves  insulted.  If  a  man  treads  on 
another's  toe  in  good  society  do  you  think  it  is 
taken  as  an  insult?  — Lady  Hester  Stanhope. 


INS  135  INT 

I  once  met  a  man  who  had  forgiven  an  injury.  I 
hope  some  day  to  meet  the  man  who  has  forgiven 
an  insult.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Insurrection.  —  Insurrection  unusually  gains 
little;  usually  wastes  how  much!  One  of  its  worst 
kind  of  wastes,  to  say  nothing  of  the  rest,  is  that  of 
irritating  and  exasperating  men  against  each  other 
by  violence  done  ;  which  is  always  sure  to  be  injus- 
tice done,  for  violence  does  even  justice  unjustly.  — 
Carlyle. 

Intellect.  —  The  commerce  of  intellect  loves 
distant  shores.  The  small  retail  dealer  trades  only 
with  his  neighbor  ;  when  the  great  merchant  trades, 
he  Hnks  the  four  quarters  of  the  globe. — Buliver- 
Lytton. 

Intelligence.  —  The  higher  feelings,  when 
acting  in  harmonious  combination,  and  directed  by 
enlightened  intellect,  have  a  boundless  scope  for 
gratification;  their  least  indulgence  is  delightful, 
and  their  highest  activity  is  bliss.  —  Combe. 

Some  men  of  a  secluded  and  studious  life  have 
sent  forth  from  their  closet  or  their  cloister,  rays  of 
intellectual  light  that  have  agitated  courts  and  rev- 
olutionized kingdoms;  like  the  moon  which,  though 
far  removed  from  the  ocean,  and  shining  upon  it 
with  a  serene  and  sober  light,  is  the  chief  cause  of 
all  those  ebbings  and  flowings  which  incessantly  dis- 
turb that  restless  world  of  waters.  —  CoUon. 

Light  has  spread,  and  even  bayonets  think. — 
Kossuth. 

Intelligence  is  a  luxury,  sometimes  useless,  some- 
times fatal.  It  is  a  torch  or  a  fire-brand  according 
to  the  use  one  makes  of  it.  —  Fernan  Cahallero. 

Intemperance. —  The  body,  overcharged  with 
the  excess  of  yesterday,  weighs  down  the  mind  to- 
gether with  itself,  and  fixes  to  the  earth  that  particle 
of  the  divine  spirit.  — Horace. 


INT  136  lEE 

Intemperance  is  a  great  decayer  of  beauty.  — 
Junius. 

Intolerance. —  Nothing  dies  so  hard,  and  ral- 
lies so  often,  as  intolerance.  —  Beecher. 

Intolerance  is  the  curse  of  every  age  and  state.  — 
Dr.  Davies. 

Invective.  —  Invective  may  be  a  sharp 
weapon,  but  over-use  blunts  its  edge.  Even  when 
the  denunciation  is  just  and  true,  it  is  an  error  of 
art  to  indulge  in  it  too  long.  —  Tyndall. 

Invention.  —  Invention  is  a  kind  of  muse, 
which,  being  possessed  of  the  other  advantages  com- 
mon to  her  sisters,  and  being  warmed  by  the  fire  of 
Apollo,  is  raised  higher  than  the  rest.  —  Dryden. 

Invention,  strictly  speaking,  is  little  more  than  a 
new  combination  of  those  images  which  have  been 
previously  gathered  and  deposited  in  the  memory. 
Nothing  can  be  made  of  nothing  ;  he  who  has  laid 
up  no  materials  can  produce  no  combinations.  —  Sir 
J.  Reynolds. 

Irony.  —  Irony  is  to  the  high-bred  what  bil- 
lingsgate is  to  the  vulgar;  and  when  one  gentleman 
thinks  another  gentleman  an  ass,  he  does  not  say  it 
point-blank,  he  implies  it  in  the  politest  terms  he 
can  invent.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Irresolution.  —  Irresolution  is  a  worse  vice 
than  rashness.  He  that  shoots  best  may  sometimes 
miss  the  mark;  but  he  that  shoots  not  at  all  can 
never  hit  it.  Irresolution  loosens  all  the  joints  of  a 
state;  like  an  ague,  it  shakes  not  this  nor  that  limb, 
but  all  the  body  is  at  once  in  a  fit.  The  irresolute 
man  is  lifted  from  one  place  to  another:  so  hatcheth 
nothing,  but  addles  all  his  actions.  —  Feltham. 

Irresolution  on  the  schemes  of  life  which  offer 
themselves  to  our  choice,  and  inconstancy  in  pursu- 
ing them,  are  the  greatest  causes  of  all  our  unhappi- 
ness.  —  Addison, 


IRR  137  JEA 

Irresolute  people  let  their  soup  grow  cold  between 
the  plate  and  the  mouth.  —  Cervantes. 

Irritability.  —  Irritability  urges  us  to  take  a 
step  as  much  too  soon  as  sloth  does  too  late.  —  Cecil. 

An  irritable  man  lies  like  a  hedgehog  rolled  up  the 
wrong  way,  tormenting  himself  with  his  own  prickles. 
—  Hood. 

Ivy.  —  The  stateliest  building  man  can  raise  is 
the  ivy's  food  at  last.  —  Dickens. 

The  ivy,  like  the  spider,  takes  hold  with  her  hands 
in  king's  palaces,  as  every  twig  is  furnished  with  in- 
numerable little  fingers,  by  which  it  draws  itself 
close,  as  it  were,  to  the  very  heart  of  the  old  rough 
stone.  Its  clinging  and  beautiful  tenacity  has  given 
rise  to  an  abundance  of  conceits  about  fidelity,  friend- 
ship, and  woman's  love,  which  have  become  com- 
monplace simply  from  their  appropriateness.  It  might 
also  symbolize  the  higher  love,  unconquerable  and 
unconquered,  which  has  embraced  this  ruined  world 
from  age  to  age,  silently  spreading  its  green  over 
the  rents  and  fissures  of  our  fallen  nature.  —  Mrs, 
iStowe. 

J. 

Jealousy.  —  What  frenzy  dictates,  jealousy 
believes.  —  Gay. 

Jealousy  sees  things  always  with  magnifying 
glasses  which  make  little  things  large,  of  dwarfs 
giants,  suspicions  truths.  —  Cervantes. 

'T  is  a  monster  begot  upon  itself,  born  on  itself. — 
Shakespeare. 

Women  detest  a  jealous  man  whom  they  do  not 
love,  but  it  angers  them  when  a  man  they  do  love  is 
not  jealous.  —  Ninon  de  UEnclos. 

A  jealous  man  always  finds  more  than  he  looks 
for.  —  Mile,  de  Sender y. 


JEA  138  JOY 

Jealousy  is  the  sister  of  love,  as  the  devil  is  the 
brother  of  angels.  —  Boujffiers. 

Jesting.  —  Jests  —  Brain  fleas  that  jump  about 
among  the  slumbering  ideas.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

The  jest  loses  its  point  when  the  wit  is  the  first 
to  laugh.  —  Schiller, 

And  generally,  men  ought  to  find  the  difference 
between  saltness  and  bitterness.  Certainly,  he  that 
hath  a  satirical  vein ,  as  he  maketh  others  afraid  of 
his  wit,  so  he  had  need  be  afraid  of  other's  memory. 
—  Bacon. 

Jewelry.  —  Jewels  !  It 's  my  belief  that  when 
wonian  was  made,  jewels  were  invented  only  to 
make  her  the  more  mischievous.  —  Douglas  Jerrold. 

Jews.  —  Talk  what  you  will  of  the  Jews ;  that 
they  are  cursed:  they  thrive  wherever  they  come  ; 
they  are  able  to  oblige  the  prince  of  their  country 
by  lending  him  money  ;  none  of  them  beg  ;  they 
keep  together ;  and  as  for  their  being  hated,  why 
Christians  hate  one  another  as  much.  —  Selden. 

They  are  a  piece  of  stubborn  antiquity,  compared 
with  which  Stonehenge  is  in  its  nonage.  They  date 
beyond  the  Pyramids.  —  Lamb. 

Joy.  —  The  soul's  calm  sunshine,  and  the  heart- 
felt joy.  —  Pope. 

Worldly  joy  is  like  the  songs  which  peasants  sing, 
full  of  melodies  and  sweet  airs.  —  Beicher. 

Redundant  joy,  like  a  poor  miser,  beggar'd  by 
his  store. —  Yovng. 

We  lose  the  peace  of  years  when  we  hunt  after 
the  rapture  of  moments.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Joy  is  the  best  of  wine.  —  George  Eliot. 

Joy  in  this  world  is  like  a  rainbow,  which  in  the 
morning  only  appears  in  the  west,  or  towards  the 
evening  sky;  but  in  the  latter  hours  of  day  casts  its 
triumphal  arch  over  the  east,  or  morning  sky. — 
RicJiter. 


JUD  139  JUD 

Judgment.  —  The  more  one  judges,  the  less 
one  loves.  —  Balzac. 

I  mistrust  the  judgment  of  every  man  in  a  case 
in  which  his  own  wishes  are  concerned.  —  Welling- 
ton. 

Judgment  and  reason  have  been  grand  jurymen 
since  before  Noah  was  a  sailor.  —  Shakespeare. 

A  flippant,  frivolous  man  may  ridicule  others, 
may  controvert  them,  scorn  them  ;  but  he  who  has 
any  respect  for  himself  seems  to  have  renounced  the 
right  of  thinking  meanly  of  others.  —  Goethe. 

In  judging  of  others  a  man  laboreth  in  vain,  often 
erreth,  and  easily  sinneth  ;  but  in  judging  and  ex- 
amining himself,  he  always  laboreth  fruitfully.  — 
Thomas  a  Kernpis. 

I  have  seen,  when  after  execution  judgment  hath 
repented  o'er  his  doom.  —  Shakespeare. 

Foolish  men  imagine  that  because  judgment  for 
an  evil  thing  is  delayed,  there  is  no  justice,  but  an 
accident  alone,  here  below.  Judgment  for  an  evil 
thing  is  many  times  delayed  some  day  or  two,  some 
century  or  two,  but  it  is  sure  as  life,  it  is  sure  as 
death  !  —  Carlyle. 

Human  judgment,  like  Luther's  drunken  peasant, 
when  saved  from  falling  on  one  side,  topples  over  on 
the  other.  —  Mazzini. 

The  contemporary  mind  may  in  rare  cases  be 
taken  by  storm  ;  but  posterity  never.  The  tribunal 
of  the  present  is  accessible  to  influence  ;  that  of  the 
future  is  incorrupt.  —  Gladstone. 

Upon  any  given  point,  contradictory  evidence  sel- 
dom puzzles  the  man  who  has  mastered  the  laws  of 
evidence,  but  he  knows  little  of  the  laws  of  evidence 
who  has  not  studied  the  unwritten  law  of  the  human 
heart ;  and  without  this  last  knowledge  a  man  of  ac- 
tion will  not  attain  to  the  practical,  nor  will  a  poet 
achieve  the  ideal.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


JUD  140  JUS 

How  little  do  they  see  what  is,  who  frame  their 
hasty  judgment  upon  that  which  seems.  —  Southey. 

Justice.  —  It  is  the  pleasure  of  the  gods  — 
that  what  is  in  conformity  with  justice  shall  also  be 
in  conformity  to  the  laws.  —  Socrates. 

Justice  delayed  is  justice  denied.  —  Gladstone. 

Justice  advances  with  such  languid  steps  that 
crime  often  escapes  from  its  slowness.  Its  tardy 
and  doubtful  course  causes  too  many  tears  to  be 
shed.  —  Corneille. 

Justice  is  truth  in  action.  —  Jouhert. 

At  present  we  can  only  reason  of  the  divine  jus- 
tice from  what  we  know  of  justice  in  man.  When 
we  are  in  other  scenes  we  may  have  truer  and 
nobler  ideas  of  it ;  but  while  we  are  in  this  life  we 
can  only  speak  from  the  volume  that  is  laid  open 
before  us.  —  Pope. 

Strike  if  you  will,  but  hear.  —  Tliemistocles, 

When  Infinite  Wisdom  established  the  rule  of 
right  and  honesty,  He  saw  to  it  that  justice  should 
be  always  the  highest  expediency.  —  Wendell  Phil- 
lips. 

But  Justice  shines  in  smoky  cottages,  and  honors 
the  pious.  Leaving  with  averted  eyes  the  gorgeous 
glare  obtained  by  polluted  hands,  she  is  wont  to 
draw  nigh  to  holiness,  not  reverencing  wealth  when 
falsely  stamped  with  praise,  and  assigning  each  deed 
its  righteous  doom.  —  ^schylus. 

God's  mill  grinds  slow  but  sure.  —  George  Her- 
bert, 

Who  shall  put  his  finger  on  the  work  of  justice, 
and  say,  "  It  is  there  ?  "  Justice  is  like  the  king- 
dom of  God  —  it  is  not  without  us  as  a  fact,  it  is 
within  us  as  a  great  yearning.  —  George  Eliot. 

Justice  claims  what  is  due,  polity  what  is  seemly; 
justice  weighs  and  decides,  polity  surveys  and  or- 
ders ;  justice  refers  to  the  individual,  polity  to  the 
community.  —  Goethe. 


KIN  141  KIN 


K. 

Kindness.  —  Yes !  you  may  find  people  ready 
enough  to  do  the  Samaritan  without  the  oil  and  two- 
pence. —  Sydney  Smith. 

Paradise  is  open  to  all  kind  hearts.  —  Beranger. 

Kind  words  produce  their  own  image  in  men's 
souls;  and  a  beautiful  image  it  is.  They  soothe  and 
quiet  and  comfort  the  hearer.  They  shame  him  out 
of  his  sour,  morose,  unkind  feelings.  We  have  not 
yet  begun  to  use  kind  words  in  such  abundance  as 
they  ought  to  be  used.  —  Pascal. 

To  cultivate  kindness  is  a  valuable  part  of  the 
business  of  life.  — Johnson. 

To  remind  a  man  of  a  kindness  conferred  is  little 
less  than  a  reproach.  — Demoslhenes. 

Kindness  is  the  only  charm  permitted  to  the  aged; 
it  is  the  coquetry  of  white  hair.  —  0.  Feuillet. 

Sow  good  services;  sweet  remembrances  will  grow 
from  them.  —  Mme.  de  Stael. 

Kings.  —  Kings  wish  to  be  absolute,  and  they 
are  sometimes  told  that  their  best  way  to  become  so 
is  to  make  themselves  beloved  by  the  people.  This 
maxim  is  doubtless  a  very  admirable  one,  and  in 
some  respects  true ;  but  unhappily  it  is  laughed  at 
in  court.  —  Rousseau. 

Implements  of  war  and  subjugation  are  the  last 
arguments  to  which  kings  resort.  —  Patrick  Henry. 

A  king  ought  not  fall  from  the  throne  except  with 
the  throne  itself  ;  under  its  lofty  ruins  he  alone 
finds  an  honored  death  and  an  honored  tomb.  — 
Aljieri. 

One  of  the  strongest  natural  proofs  of  the  folly  of 
hereditary  right  in  kings  is,  that  nature  disapproves 
it ;  otherwise  she  would  not  so  frequently  turn  it  into 
ridicule  by  giving  mankind  an  ass  in  place  of  a  lion. 
—  Thomas  Paine. 


KIN  142  KNA 

He  on  whom  Heaven  confers  a  sceptre  knows  not 
the  weight  till  he  bears  it.  —  Corneille. 

Kings'  titles  commonly  begin  by  force  which  time 
wears  off,  and  mellows  into  right ;  and  power  which 
in  one  age  is  tyranny  is  ripened  in  the  next  to  true 
succession.  —  Dryden. 

Kisses.  —  It  is  as  old  as  the  creation,  and  yet 
as  young  and  fresh  as  ever.  It  preexisted,  still  ex- 
ists, and  always  will  exist.  Depend  upon  it,  Eve 
learned  it  in  Paradise,  and  was  taught  its  beauties, 
virtues,  and  varieties  by  an  angel,  there  is  something 
so  transcendent  in  it.  —  Hallhurton. 

Dear  as  remembered  kisses  after  death.  —  Tenny- 
son. 

Or  leave  a  kiss  but  in  the  cup,  and  I  '11  not  look 
for  wine.  —  Ben  Jonson. 

He  kissed  her  and  promised.  Such  beautiful  lips! 
Man's  usual  fate  — he  was  lost  upon  the  coral  reefs. 
—  Douglas  Jerrold. 

Eden  revives  in  the  first  kiss  of  love.  —  Byron. 

You  would  think  that,  if  our  lips  were  made  of 
liorti,  and  stuck  out  a  foot  or  two  from  our  faces, 
kisses  at  any  rate  would  be  done  for.  Not  so.  No 
creatures  kiss  each  other  so  much  as  birds.  —  Charles 
Buxton. 

That  farewell  kiss  which  resembles  greeting,  that 
last  glance  of  love  which  becomes  the  sharpest  pang 
of  sorrow.  —  George  Eliot. 

Stolen  kisses  are  always  sweetest.  -*  Leigh  Hunt. 

Sharp  is  the  kiss  of  the  falcon's  beak.  — Buliver- 
Lytton. 

Four  sweet  lips,  two  pure  souls,  and  one  undying 
affection,  — these  are  love's  pretty  ingredients  for  a 
kiss.  —  Bovee.      ' 

Knavery.  —  Unluckily  the  credulity  of  dupes 
is  as  inexhaustible  as  the  invention  of  knaves.  They 


KNA  143  KNO 

never  give  people  possession  ;  but  they  always  keep 
them  in  hope.  —  Burke. 

After  long  experience  in  the  world  I  affirm,  before 
God,  I  never  knew  a  rogue  who  was  not  unhappy. 

—  Junius. 

By  fools  knaves  fatten  ;  by  bigots  priests  are  well 
clothed;  every  knave  finds  a  gull.  —  Zimmerman. 

Knowledge.  —  The  sure  foundations  of  the 
state  are  laid  in  knowledge,  not  in  ignorance ;  and 
every  sneer  at  education,  at  culture,  at  book  learn- 
ing, which  is  the  recorded  wisdom  of  the  experience 
of  mankind,  is  the  demagogue's  sneer  at  intelligent 
liberty,  inviting  national  degeneracy  and  ruin.  —  G, 
W.  Curtis. 

Knowledge,  like  religion,  must  be  "experienced," 
in  order  to  be  known.  —  Whipple. 

The  pleasure  and  delight  of  knowledge  far  sur- 
passeth  all  other  in  nature.  We  see  in  all  other 
pleasures  there  is  satiety  ;  and  after  they  be  used, 
their  verdure  departeth,  which  showeth  well  that 
they  be  but  deceits  of  pleasure,  and  not  pleasures; 
and  that  it  was  the  novelty  which  pleased,  not  the 
quality  ;  and  therefore  we  see  that  voluptuous  men 
turn  friars,  and  ambitious  princes  turn  melancholy. 
But  of  knowledge  there  is  no  satiety,  but  satisfac- 
tion and  nppetite  are  perpetually  interchangeable.  — 
Bacon. 

What  novelty  is  worth  the  sweet  monotony  where 
everything  is  known,  and  loved  because  it  is  known? 

—  George  Eliot. 

The  truth  is,  that  most  men  want  knowledge,  not 
for  itself,  but  for  the  superiority  which  knowledge 
confers ;  and  the  means  they  employ  to  secure  this 
superiority  are  as  wrong  as  the  ultimate  object,  for 
no  man  can  ever  end  with  being  superior  who  will 
not  begin  with  being  inferior.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

lie  who  knows  much  has  much  to  care  for. — 
Lessing. 


KNO  144  KNO 

Properly,  there  is  no  other  knowledge  but  that 
which  is  trot  by  working:  the  rest  is  yet  all  a  hy- 
pothesis of  knowledge ;  a  thing  to  be  argued  of  in 
schools;  a  thing  floating  in  the  clouds,  in  endless 
logic-vortices,  till  we  try  and  fix  it.  —  Carlyle. 

He  that  increaseth  knowledge  increaseth  sorrow. 

—  Bible. 

To  know  by  rote  is  no  knowledge  ;  it  is  only  a  re- 
tention of  what  is  intrusted  to  the  memory.  That 
which  a  man  truly  knows  may  be  disposed  of  with- 
out regard  to  the  author,  or  reference  to  the  book 
from  whence  he  had  it.  —  Montaigne. 

He  who  cherishes  his  old  knowledge,  so  as  contin- 
ually to  acquire  new,  he  may  be  a  teacher  of  others. 

—  Confucius. 

A  taste  of  every  sort  of  knowledge  is  necessary  to 
form  the  mind,  and  is  the  only  way  to  give  the  un- 
derstanding its  due  improvement  to  the  full  extent 
of  its  capacity.  —  Locke. 

Knowledge  has,  in  our  time,  triumphed,  and  is 
triumphing,  over  prejudice,  and  over  bigotry.  The 
civilized  and  Christian  world  is  fast  learning  the 
great  lesson,  that  difference  of  nation  does  not  imply 
necessary  hostility,  and  that  all  contact  need  not  bo 
war.  The  whole  world  is  becoming  a  common  field 
for  intellect  to  act  in.  Energy  of  mind,  genius, 
power,  wheresoever  it  exists,  may  speak  out  in  any 
tongue,  and  the  world  will  hear  it.  —  Daniel  Web- 
ster. 

Knowledge  once  gained  casts  a  faint  light  beyond 
its  own  immediate  boundaries.  —  Tyndall. 

The  shortest  and  the  surest  way  of  arriving  at 
real  knowledge  is  to  unlearn  the  lessons  we  have 
been  taught,  to  remount  to  first  principles,  and 
take  nobody's  word  about  them.  —  Bolingbroke. 

Sorrow  is  knowledge ;  they  who  know  the  most 
must  mourn  the  deepest  o'er  the  fatal  truth  ;  the 
tree  of  knowledge  is  not  that  of  life.  —  Byron. 


KNO  145  LAB 

The  seeds  of  knowlege  may  be  planted  in  solitude, 
but  must  be  cultivated  in  public.  — Johnson. 

Knowledge  dwells  in  heads  replete  with  thoughts 
of  other  men  ;  Wisdom,  in  minds  attentive  to  their 
own.  —  Cowper. 

It  is  the  glorious  prerogative  of  the  empire  of 
knowledge,  that  what  it  gains  it  never  loses.  On 
the  contrary,  it  increases  by  the  multiple  of  its  own 
power;  all  its  ends  become  means;  all  its  attain- 
ments helps  to  new  conquests.  —  Daniel  Webster. 

The  love  of  knowledge  in  a  young  mind  is  almost 
a  warrant  against  the  intirm  excitement  of  passions 
and  vices.  — Beecher. 

There  is  nothing  so  minute,  or  inconsiderable, 
that  I  would  not  rather  know  it  than  not.  —  John- 
son. 

We  always  know  everything  when  it  serves  no 
purpose,  and  when  the  seal  of  the  irreparable  has 
been  set  upon  events.  —  Theophile  Gauiier. 

All  the  knowledge  that  we  mortals  can  acquire  is 
not  knowledge  positive,  but  knowledge  comparative, 
and  subject  to  the  errors  and  passions  of  humanity. 
—  Bulwer-Lytton. 


Labor.  —  Labor  is  the  divine  law  of  our  exist- 
ence ;  repose  is  desertion  and  suicide.  —  Mazzini. 

Labor  is  life  :  from  the  inmost  heart  of  the  worker 
rises  his  God-given  force,  the  sacred  celestial  life- 
essence  breathed  into  him  by  Almighty  God  !  —  Car- 
lyle. 

The  fact  is  nothing  comes  ;  at  least  nothing  good. 
All  has  to  be  fetched.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Genius  begins  great  works,  labor  alone  finishes 
them.  —  JoxJjert. 
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LAB  146  LAN 

As  steady  application  to  work  is  the  healthiest 
training  for  every  individual,  so  is  it  the  best  disci- 
pline of  a  state.  Honorable  industry  always  travels 
the  same  road  with  enjoyment  and  duty,  and  progress 
is  altogether  impossible  without  it.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

Nature  is  just  towards  men.  It  recompenses  them 
for  their  sufferings ;  it  renders  them  laborious,  be- 
cause to  the  greatest  toils  it  attaches  the  greatest  re- 
wards. —  Mordesquieu. 

Virtue's  guard  is  Labor,  ease  her  sleep.  —  Tasso. 

Alexander  the  Great,  reflecting  on  his  friends  de- 
generating into  sloth  and  luxury,  told  them  that  it 
was  a  most  slavish  thing  to  luxuriate,  and  a  most 
royal  thing  to  labor.  —  Barrow. 

Many  young  painters  would  never  have  taken  their 
pencils  in  hand  if  they  could  have  felt,  known,"  and 
understood,  early  enough,  what  really  produced  a 
master  like  Raphael.  —  Goethe. 

He  that  thinks  that  diversion  may  not  lie  in  hard 
labor  forgets  the  early  rising  and  hard  riding  of 
huntsmen.  —  Locke. 

The  pain  of  life  but  sweetens  death ;  the  hardest 
labor  brings  the  soundest  sleep.  —  Albert  Smith. 

What  men  want  is  not  talent,  it  is  purpose  ;  not 
the  power  to  achieve,  but  the  will  to  labor.  —  Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

The  true  epic  of  our  times  is  not  "  arms  and  the 
man,"  but  "  tools  and  the  man,"  an  infinitely  wider 
kind  of  epic.  —  Carlyle. 

Labor  is  the  curse  of  the  world,  and  nobody  can 
meddle  with  it  without  becoming  proportionably 
brutified  !  —  Hawthorne. 

Land .  —  There  is  a  distinct  joy  in  owning  land, 
unlike  that  which  you  have  in  money,  in  houses,  in 
books,  pictures,  or  anything  else  which  men  have 
devised.  Personal  property  brings  you  into  society 
with  men.    But  land  is  a  part  of  God's  estate  in  the 


I 


LAN  147  LAU 

globe;  and  when  a  parcel  of  ground  is  deeded  to  you, 
and  you  walk  over  it,  and  call  it  your  own,  it  seems 
as  if  you  had  come  into  partnership  with  the  original 
Proprietor  of  the  earth.  —  Beecher. 

Language.  —  The  Creator  has  gifted  the  whole 
universe  with  language,  but  few  are  the  hearts  that 
can  interpret  it.  Happy  those  to  whom  it  is  no 
foreign  tongue,  acquired  imperfectly  with  care  and 
pain,  but  rather  a  native  language,  learned  uncon- 
sciously from  the  lips  of  the  great  mother.  —  Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

The  key  to  the  sciences.  —  Bruyere. 

A  countryman  is  as  warm  in  fustian  as  a  king  in 
velvet,  and  a  truth  is  as  comfortable  in  homely  lan- 
guage as  in  fine  speech.  As  to  the  way  of  dishing 
up  tfie  meat,  hungry  men  leave  that  to  the  cook, 
only  let  the  meat  be  sweet  and  substantial.  —  Spur" 
geon. 

The  machine  of  the  poet.  —  Macaulay. 

Poetry,  indeed,  cannot  be  translated;  and,  there- 
fore, it  is  the  poets  that  preserve  the  languages;  for 
we  would  not  be  at  the  trouble  to  learn  a  language 
if  we  could  have  all  that  is  written  in  it  just  as  well 
in  a  translation.  But  as  the  beauties  of  poetry  can- 
not be  preserved  in  any  language  except  that  in 
which  it  was  originally  written,  we  learn  the  lan- 
guage. —  Johnson. 

Language  most  shows  a  man;  speak  that  I  may 
see  thee:  it  springs  out  of  the  most  retired  and  in- 
most part  of  us.  —  Ben  Jonson. 

If  the  way  in  which  men  express  their  thoughts 
is  slipshod  and  mean,  it  will  be  very  difficult  for 
their  thoughts  themselves  to  escape  being  the  same. 
If  it  is  high  flown  and  bombastic,  a  character  for 
national  simplicity  and  thankfulness  cannot  long  be 
maintained.  —  Dean  Alford. 

Laughter. — Conversation  never  sits  easier 
than  when  we  now  and  then  discharge  ourselves  in 


LAU  148  LAU 

a  symphony  of  laughter ;  which  may  not  improperly 
be  called  the  chorus  of  conversation.  —  Steele. 
The  laughers  are  a  majority.  —  Pope^ 
Learn  from  the  earliest  days  to  inure  your  princi- 
ples against  the  perils  of  ridicule:  you  can  no  more 
exercise  your  reason,  if  you  live  in  the  constant  dread 
of  laughter,  than  you  can  enjoy  your  life  if  you  are 
in  the  constant  terror  of  death.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

How  much  lies  in  laughter  :  the  cipher  key,  where- 
with we  decipher  the  whole  man!  —  Carlyle. 

God  made  both  tears  and  laughter,  and  both  for 
kind  purposes ;  for  as  laughter  enables  mirth  and 
surprise  to  breathe  freely,  so  tears  enable  sorrow  to 
vent  itself  patiently.  Tears  hinder  sorrow  from  be- 
coming despair  and  madness.  — Leigh  Hunt. 

How  inevitably  does  an  immoderate  laughter  end 
in  a  sigh! —  South. 

Laughing,  if  loud,  ends  in  a  deep  sigh  ;  and  all 
pleasures  have  a  sting  in  the  tail,  though  they  carry 
beauty  on  the  face.  —  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Laughter  means  sympathy.  —  Carlyle. 

One  good,  hearty  laugh  is  a  bombshell  exploding 
in  the  right  place,  while  spleen  and  discontent  are  a 
gun  that  kicks  over  the  man  who  shoots  it  off.  —  De 
Witt  Talmage. 

I  am  sure  that  since  I  had  the  use  of  my  reason, 
no  human  being  has  ever  heard  me  laugh.  —  Ches- 
terfield. 

I  like  the  laughter  that  opens  the  lips  and  the 
heart,  that  shower  at  the  same  time  pearls  and  the 
soul.  —  Victor  Hugo. 

Laughter  is  a  most  healthful  exertion  ;  it  is  one 
of  the  greatest  helps  to  digestion  with  which  I  am 
ac(iuainted;  and  the  custom  prevalent  among  our 
forefathers,  of  exciting  it  at  table  by  jesters  and  buf- 
foons, was  founded  on  true  medical  principles.  — 
Dr.  Hufeland. 


LAW  149      *  LAW 

La*w.  —  With  us,  law  is  nothinpr  unless  close  be- 
hind it  stands  a  warm,  living  public  opinion.  Let 
that  die  or  grow  indifferent,  and  statutes  are  waste 
paper,  lacking  all  executive  force.  —  Wendell  Phil- 
lips. 

Of  all  the  parts  of  a  law,  the  most  effectual  is  the 
vindicatory ;  for  it  is  but  lost  labor  to  say,  "Do 
this,  or  avoid  that,"  unless  we  also  declare,  "  This 
shall  be  the  consequence  of  your  non-compliance." 
The  main  strength  and  force  of  a  law  consists  in  the 
penalty  annexed  to  it.  —  Blackstone. 

If  there  be  any  one  principle  more  widely  than 
another  confessed  by  every  utterance,  or  more  sternly 
than  another  imprinted  on  every  atom  of  the  visible 
creation,  that  principle  is  not  liberty,  but  law.  — 
Ruskin. 

It  would  be  very  singular  if  this  great  shad-net  of 
the  law  did  not  enable  men  to  catch  at  something, 
balking  for  the  time  the  eternal  flood-tide  of  justice. 
—  Chapin. 

True  law  is  right  reason  conformably  to  nature, 
universal,  unchangeable,  eternal,  whose  commands 
urge  us  to  duty,  and  whose  prohibitions  restrain  us 
from  evil.  —  Cicero. 

Aristotle  himself  has  said,  speaking  of  the  laws  of 
his  own  country,  that  jurisprudence,  or  the  knowl- 
edge of  those  laws,  is  the  principal  and  most  perfect 
branch  of  ethics.  —  Blackstone. 

In  effect,  to  follow,  not  to  force,  the  public  incli- 
nation, to  give  a  direction,  a  form,  a  technical  dress, 
and  a  specific  sanction,  to  the  general  sense  of  the 
community,  is  the  true  end  of  legislation.  — Burke. 

In  the  habits  of  legal  men  every  accusation  ap- 
pears insufficient  if  they  do  not  exaggerate  it  even 
to  calumny.  It  is  thus  that  justice  itself  loses  its 
sanctity  and  its  respect  amongst  men.  —  Lamartine. 

Pity  is  the  virtue  of  the  law,  and  none  but  tyrants 
use  it  cruelly.  —  Shakespeare, 


LAW  •      150  LEA 

It  is  a  very  easy  thing  to  devise  good  laws  ;  the 
difficulty  is  to  make  them  effective.  The  great  mis- 
take is  that  of  looking  upon  men  as  virtuous,  or 
thinking  that  they  can  be  made  so  by  laws  ;  and 
consequently  the  greatest  art  of  a  politician  is  to 
render  vices  serviceable  to  the  cause  of  virtue.  — 
BoUnghroke. 

A  mouse-trap  ;  easy  to  enter  but  not  easy  to  get 
out  of.  —  Mrs  Balfour. 

What  can  idle  laws  do  with  morals?  —  Horace. 

The  law  is  a  gun,  which  if  it  misses  a  pigeon  al- 
ways kills  a  crow;  if  it  does  not  strike  the  guilty  it 
hits  some  one  else.  As  every  crime  creates  a  law, 
60  in  turn  every  law  creates  a  crime.  — Bulwer-Lytlon. 

Learning.  —  It  adds  a  precious  seeing  to  the 
eye.  —  Shakespeare. 

You  are  to  consider  that  learning  is  of  great  use 
to  society  ;  and  though  it  may  not  add  to  the  stock, 
it  is  a  necessary  vehicle  to  transmit  it  to  others. 
Learned  men  are  the  cisterns  of  knowledge,  not  the 
fountain-heads.  — James  Northcote. 

Learning  makes  a  man  fit  company  for  himself. 
—  Young. 

Learning  maketh  young  men  temperate,  i«  the 
comfort  of  old  age,  standing  for  wealth  with  poverty, 
and  serving  as  an  ornament  to  riches.  —  Cicero. 

The  chief  art  of  learning,  as  Locke  has  observed, 
is  to  attempt  but  little  at  a  time.  The  widest  ex- 
cursions of  the  mind  are  made  by  short  flights  fre- 
quently repeated  ;  the  most  lofty  fabrics  oif  science 
are  formed  by  the  continued  accumulation  of  single 
propositions.  — Johnson. 

No  man  can  ever  want  this  mortification  of  his 
vanity,  that  what  he  knows  is  but  a  very  little,  in 
comparison  of  what  he  still  continues  ignorant  of. 
Consider  this,  and,  instead  of  boasting  thy  knowl- 
edge of  a  few  things,  confess  and  be  out  of  counte- 
nance for  the  many  more  which  thou  dost  not  under- 
stand. —  Thomas  a  Kempis. 


LEA  151  LIB 

Suppose  we  put  a  tax  upon  learninj^?  Learning, 
it  is  true,  is  a  useless  commodity,  but  I  think  we  had 
better  lay  it  on  ignorance;  for   learning    being  the 

Property  but  of  a  very  few,  and  those  poor  ones  too, 
am  afraid  we  can  get  little  among  them;  whereas 
ignorance  will  take  in  most  of  the  great  fortunes  in 
the  kingdom.  —  Fielding. 

For  ignorance  of  all  things  is  an  evil  neither  terri- 
ble nor  excessive,  nor  yet  the  greatest  of  all;  but 
great  cleverness  and  much  learning,  if  they  be  ac- 
companied by  a  bad  training,  is  a  much  greater  mis- 
fortune. —  Plalo. 

No  power  can  exterminate  the  seeds  of  liberty 
when  it  has  germinated  in  the  blood  of  brave  men. 
Our  religion  of  to-day  is  still  that  of  martyrdom;  to- 
morrow it  will  be  the  religion  of  victory.  —  Mazzini. 

Leisure.  —  "  Never  less  idle  than  when  idle, ' ' 
was  the  motto  which  the  admirable  Vittoria  Colonna 
wrought  upon  her  husband's  dressing-gown.  And 
may  we  not  justly  regard  our  appreciation  of  leisure 
as  a  test  of  improved  character  and  growing  re- 
sources ?  —  Tuckerman. 

Leisure  is  gone ;  gone  where  the  spinning-wheels 
are  gone,  and  the  pack-horses,  and  the  slow  wag- 
ons, and  the  peddlers  who  brought  bargains  to  the 
door  on  sunny  afternoons.  —  George  Eliot. 

Libels  .  ^^—Undoubtedly  the  good  fame  of  every 
man  ought  to  be  under  the  [)rotection  of  the  laws,  as 
well  as  his  life  and  liberty  and  property.  Good 
fame  is  an  outwork  that  defends  them  airand  ren- 
ders them  all  valuable.  The  law  forbids  you  to  re- 
venge; when  it  ties  up  the  hands  of  some,  it  ought 
to  restrain  the  tongues  of  others.  —  Burke. 

If  it  was  a  new  thing,  it  may  be  I  should  not  be 
displeased  with  the  suppression  of  the  first  libel  that 
should  abuse  me;  but,  since  there  are  enough  of 
them  to  make  a  small  library,  I  am  secretly  pleased 
to  see  the  number  increased,  and  take  delight  in 
raising  a  heap  of  stones  that  envy  has  cast  at  me 
without  doing  me  any  harm.  —  Balzac. 


LIB  152  LIF 

Liberty.  —  Liberty  is  the  right  to  do  what  the 
laws  allow;  and  if  a  citizen  could  do  what  they  for- 
bid, it  would  be  no  longer  liberty,  because  others 
would  have  the  same  powers.  —  Montesquieu. 

If  the  true  spark  of  religious  and  civil  liberty  be 
kindled,  it  will  burn.  Human  agency  cannot  extin- 
guish it.  Like  the  earth's  central  fire,  it  may  be 
smothered  for  a  time;  the  ocean  may  overwhelm  it; 
mountains  may  press  it  down;  but  its  inherent  and 
unconquerable  force  will  heave  both  the  ocean  and 
the  land,  and  at  some  time  or  another,  in  some  place 
or  another,  the  volcano  will  break  out  and  iiame  to 
heaven.  —  Daniel  Webster. 

Interwoven  is  the  love  of  liberty  with  every  liga- 
ment of  the  heart.  —  Washington. 

Library.  —  A  large  library  is  apt  to  distract 
rather  than  to  instruct  the  learner;  it  is  much  better 
to  be  confined  to  a  few  authors  than  to  wander  at 
random  over  many.  —  Seneca. 

He  has  his  Rome,  his  Florence,  his  whole  glowing 
Italy,  within  the  four  walls  of  his  library.  He  has 
in  his  books  the  ruins  of  an  antique  world,  and  the 
glories  of  a  modern  one.  —  Longfellow. 

What  a  place  to  be  in  is  an  old  library !  It  seems 
as  though  all  the  souls  of  ail  the  writers  that  have 
bequeathed  their  labors  to  these  Bodleians  were  re- 

i)Osing  here,  as  in  some  dormitory,  or  middle  state. 
'.  do  not  want  to  handle,  to  profane  the  leaves,  their 
winding-sheets.  I  could  as  soon  dislodge  a  shade.  I 
seem  to  inhale  learning,  walking  amid  their  foliage; 
and  the  odor  of  their  old  moth-scented  coverings  is 
fragrant  as  the  first  bloom  of  those  sciential  apples 
which  grew  amid  the  happy  orchard.  —  Lamb. 

Life.  —  Life  is  a  quaint  puzzle.  Bits  the  most 
incongruous  join  into  each  other,  and  the  scheme  thus 
gradually  becomes  symmetrical  and  clear;  when,  lo! 
as  the  infant  clasps  his  hands,  and  cries,  "  See,  see! 
the  puzzle  is  made  out,"  all  the  pieces  are  swept 


LIF  153  LIF 

back  into  the  box  —  black  box  with  the  gilded  nails! 
—  Bulwer-Lytton. 

We  never  live,  but  we  ever  hope  to  live.  —  Pascal, 
Life  is  like  a  beautiful  and  winding  lane,  on  either 
side  bright  flowers,  and  beautiful  butterflies,  and 
tempting  fruits,  which  we  scarcely  pause  to  admire 
and  to  taste,  so  eager  are  we  to  hasten  to  an  open- 
ing which  we  imagine  will  be  more  beautiful  still. 
But  by  degrees  as  we  advance,  the  trees  grow  bleak; 
the  flowers  and  butterflies  fail,  the  fruits  disappear, 
and  we  find  we  have  arrived  —  to  reach  a  desert 
waste.  —  G.  A.  Sala. 

How  small  a  portion  of  our  life  it  is  that  we  really 
enjoy!  In  youth  we  are  looking  forward  to  things 
that  are  to  come  ;  in  old  age  we  are  looking  back- 
wards to  things  that  are  gone  past;  in  manhood,  al- 
though we  appear  indeed  to  be  more  occupied  in 
things  that  are  present,  yet  even  that  is  too  often 
absorbed  in  vague  determinations  to  be  vastly  happy 
on  some  future  day  when  we  have  time.  — Colton, 

The  days  of  our  years  are  three-score  years  and 
ten ;  and  if  by  reason  of  strength  they  be  four-score 
years,  yet  is  their  strength  labor  and  sorrow ;  for  it 
is  soon  cut  off,  and  we  fly  away.  —  Bible. 

When  I  reflect  upon  what  I  have  seen,  what  I  have 
heard,  what  I  have  done,  I  can  hardly  persuade  my- 
self that  all  that  frivolous  hurry  and  bustle  and 
pleasure  of  the  world  had  any  reality ;  and  I  look 
on  what  has  passed  as  one  of  those  wild  dreams 
which  opium  occasions,  and  I  by  no  means  wish  to 
repeat  the  nauseous  dose  for  the  sake  of  the  fugitive 
illusion.  —  Chesterfield. 

Life  is  like  a  game  of  whist.  I  don't  enjoy  the 
game  much,  but  I  like  to  play  my  cards  well,  and 
see  what  will  be  the  end  of  it.  —  George  Eliot. 

He  most  lives  who  thinks  most,  feels  the  noblest, 
acts  the  best ;  and  he  whose  heart  beats  the  quickest 
lives  the  longest.  —  James  Martineau. 


LIF  154  UP 

Life  is  so  complicated  a  game  that  the  devices  of 

*skill  are  liable  to  be  defeated  at  every  turn  by  air- 
blown  chances,  incalculable  as  the  descent  of  thistle- 
down. —  George  Eliot. 

When  we  embark  in  the  dangerous  ship  called 
Life,  we  must  not,  like  Ulysses,  be  tied  to  the  mast; 
we  must  know  how  to  listen  to  the  songs  of  the  sirens 
and  to  brave  their  blandishments.  —  Arsene  Hous- 
saye. 

Life  is  thick  sown  with  thorns,  and  I  know  no 
other  remedy  than  to  pass  quickly  through  them. 
The  longer  we  dwell  on  our  misfortunes  the  greater 
is  their  power  to  harm  us.  — Voltaire. 

The  earnestness  of  life  is  the  only  passport  to  the 
satisfaction  of  life.  —  Theodore  Parker. 

I  am  convinced  that  there  is  no  man  that  knows 
life  well,  and  remembers  all  the  incidents  of  his  past 
existence,  who  would  accept  it  again  ;  we  are  cer- 
tainly here  to  punish  precedent  sins.  —  Campbell. 

The  childhood  of  immortality.  —  Goethe. 

.So  our  lives  glide  on ;  the  river  ends  we  don't 
know  where,  and  the  sea  begins,  and  then  there  is 
DO  more  jumping  ashore.  —  George  Eliot. 

We  never  think  of  the  main  business  of  life  till  a 
vain  repentance  minds  us  of  it  at  the  wrong  end.  — 
L^  Estrange. 

This  tide  of  man's  life  after  it  once  turneth  and 
declineth  ever  runneth  with  a  perpetual  ebb  and 
falling  stream,  but  never  floweth  again.  —  Sir  W. 
Raleigh. 

If  the  first  death  be  the  mistress  of  mortals,  and 
the  mistress  of  the  universe,  reflect  then  on  the 
brevity  of  life.  "  I  have  been,  and  that  is  all,'* 
said  Saladin  the  Great,  who  was  conqueror  of  the 
East.  The  longest  liver  had  but  a  handful  of  days, 
and  life  itself  is  but  a  circle,  always  beginning 
where  it  ends.  —  Henry  Mayhew. 


LIF  155  LIG 

Why  all  this  toil  for  the  triumphs  of  an  hour  ?  — 
Young. 

The  cradle  and  the  tomb,  alas!  so  nigh.  —  Prior. 

Life's  short  summer  —  man  is  but  a  flower.  — 
Johnson. 

Man  lives  only  to  shiver  and  perspire.  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

O  frail  estate  of  human  things !  —  Dryden. 

Many  think  themselves  to  be  truly  God-fearing 
"when  they  call  this  world  a  valley  of  tears.  But  1 
believe  they  would  be  more  so,  if  they  called  it  a 
happy  valley.  God  is  more  pleased  with  those  who 
think  everything  right  in  the  world,  than  with  those 
who  think  nothing  right.  With  so  many  thousand 
joys,  is  it  not  black  ingratitude  to  call  the  world  a 
place  of  sorrow  and  torment?  —  Richter. 

Life  is  a  progress  from  want  to  want,  not  from  en- 
joyment to  enjoyment.  — Johnson. 

We  never  live:  we  are  always  in  the  expectation 
of  living.  — Voltaire. 

Life  does  not  count  by  years.  Some  suffer  a  life- 
time in  a  day,  and  so  grow  old  between  the  rising 
and  the  setting  of  the  sun.  —  Augusta  Evans. 

Light.  —  Science  and  art  may  invent  splendid 
modes  of  illuminating  the  apartments  of  the  opu- 
lent; but  these  are  all  poor  and  worthless  compared 
with  the  light  which  the  sun  sends  into  our  win- 
dows, which  he  pours  freely,  impartially,  over  hill 
and  valley,  which  kindles  daily  the  eastern  and 
western  sky;  and  so  the  common  lights  of  reason 
and  conscience  and  love  are  of  more  worth  and  dig- 
nity than  the  rare  endowments  which  give  celebrity 
to  a  few.  —  Dr.  Channing. 

More  light!  —  Goethe'' s  last  words. 

Light!  Nature's  resplendent  robe;  without  whose 
vesting  beauty  all  were  wrapt  in  gloom.  —  Thom- 
son. 


LIG  156  LIT 

Hail!  holy  light,  offspring  of  heaven,  first  born! 

—  Milton. 

We  should  render  thanks  to  God  for  having  pro- 
duced this  temporal  light,  which  is  the  smile  of 
heaven  and  joy  of  the  world,  spreading  it  like  a 
cloth  of  gold  over  the  face  of  the  air  and  earth,  and 
lighting  it  as  a  torch,  by  which  we  might  behold  his 
works.  —  Caussin. 

Likeness. —  Like,  but  oh,  how  different!  — 
Wordsworth. 

Lips.  —  Lips  like  rosebuds  peeping  out  of  snow. 

—  Bailey. 

^  He  kissed  me  hard,  as  though  he  'd  pluck  up 
kisses  by  the  roots  that  grew  upon  my  lips.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

The  lips  of  a  fool  swallow  up  himself.  —  Bible. 

Literature.  —  Literature  happens  to  be  the 
only  occupation  in  which  wages  are  not  given  in 
proportion  to  the  goodness  of  the  work  done.  — 
Froude. 

The  literature  of  a  people  must  spring  from  the 
sense  of  its  nationality  ;  and  nationality  is  impossible 
without  self-respect,  and  self-respect  is  impossible 
without  liberty.  —  3frs.  Slowe. 

Cleverness  is  a  sort  of  genius  for  instrumentality. 
It  is  the  brain  of  the  hand.  In  literature,  cleverness 
is  more  frequently  accompanied  by  wit,  genius,  and 
sense,  than  by  humor.  —  Coleridge. 

When  literature  is  the  sole  business  of  life,  it  be- 
comes a  drudgery.  When  we  are  able  to  resort  to 
it  only  at  certain  hours,  it  is  a  charming  relaxation. 
In  my  earlier  days  I  was  a  banker's  clerk,  obliged 
to  be  at  the  desk  every  day  from  ten  till  five  o'clock; 
and  I  shall  never  forget  the  delight  with  which,  on 
returning  home,  I  used  to  read  and  write  during  the 
evening.  —  Rogers. 


LIT  357  LOV 

Literary  history  is  the  great  morgue  where  all 
seek  the  dead  ones  whom  they  love,  or  to  whom  they 
are  related.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Whatever  the  skill  of  any  country  be  in  sciences, 
it  is  from  excellence  in  polite  learning  alone  that  it 
must  expect  a  character  from  posterity.  —  Goldsmith. 

Logic.  —  Logic  differeth  from  rhetoric  as  the 
fist  from  the  palm;  the  one  close,  the  other  at  large. 

—  Bacon. 

Syllogism  is  of  necessary  use,  even  to  the  lovers 
of  truth,  to  show  them  the  fallacies  that  are  often 
concealed  in  florid,  witty,  or  involved  discourses. — , 
Locke. 

Logic  is  the  art  of  convincing  us  of  some  truth. 

—  Bruyere. 

Love.  —  Fie,  fie!  how  wayward  is  this  foolish 
love,  that,  like  a  testy  babe,  will  scratch  the  nurse, 
and  presently,  all  humbled,  will  kiss  the  rod!  — 
Shakespeare. 

Love  is  the  cross  and  passion  of  the  heart;  its  end, 
its  errand.  —  P.  L.  Bailey. 

Love  is  frightened  at  the  intervals  of  insensibility 
and  callousness  that  encroach  by  little  and  little  on 
the  dominion  of  grief,  and  it  makes  efforts  to  recall 
the  keenness  of  the  first  anguish.  —  George  Eliot. 

Love  while  'tis  day;  night  cometh  soon,  whereia 
no  man  or  maiden  may.  — Joaquin  Miller. 

Love  has  a  way  of  cheating  itself  consciously,  like 
a  child  who  plays  at  solitary  hide-and-seek  ;  it  is 
pleased  with  assurances  that  it  all  the  while  disbe- 
lieves. —  George  Eliot. 

As  soon  go  kindle  fire  with  snow,  as  seek  to 
quench  the  fire  of  love  with  words.  —  Shakespeare. 

Loves  change  sure  as  man*or  moon,  and  wane  like 
warm  full  days  of  June.  — Joaquin  Miller. 

Take  of  love  as  a  sober  man 
get  drunk.  —  Alfred  de  Mussel. 


LOV  158  LOV 

Love  is  the  admiration  and  cherishing  of  the  ami- 
able qualities  of  the  beloved  person,  upon  the  con- 
dition of  yourself  being  the  object  of  their  action. 
The  qualities  of  the  sexes  correspond.  The  man's 
courage  is  loved  by  the  woman,  whose  fortitude 
again  is  coveted  by  the  man.  His  vigorous  intellect 
is  answered  by  her  infallible  tact.  Can  it  be  true, 
what  is  so  constantly  affirmed,  that  there  is  no  sex 
in  SQuls?  I  doubt  it  —  I  doubt  it  exceedingly. — 
Coleridge. 

As  love  increases  prudence  diminishes.  —  RoucTie- 
foucauld. 

Never  self-possessed,  or  prudent,  love  is  all  aban- 
donment. —  Emerson. 

The  desire  to  be  beloved  is  ever  restless  and  un- 
satisfied; but  the  love  that  flows  out  upon  others  is  a 
perpetual  well-spring  from  on  high.  — L.  M.  Child. 

Love  is  love's  reward.  —  Dryden. 

The  violence  of  love  is  as  much  to  be  dreaded  as 
that  of  hate.  When  it  is  durable,  it  is  serene  and 
equable.  Even  its  famous  pains  begin  only  with  the 
ebb  of  love,  for  few  are  indeed  lovers,  though  all 
would  fain  be. —  Thoreau. 

Love  makes  all  things  possible.  —  Shakespeare. 

Economy  in  love  is  peace  to  nature,  much  like 
economy  in  worldly  matters  ;  we  should  be  prudent, 
never  love  too  fast;  profusion  will  not,  cannot,  al- 
ways last.  —  Peter  Pindar.     {John  W.  Wolcott.) 

There  is  no  fear  in  love,  for  perfect  love  casteth 
out  fear.  — Bible. 

O  love !  thy  essence  is  thy  purity !  Breathe  one 
unhallowed  breath  upon  thy  flame  and  it  is  gone  for 
ever,  and  but  leaves  a  sullied  vase,  —  its  pure  light 
lost  in  shame.  —  Landor. 

The  pale  com{)lexion  of  true  love.  —  Shakespeare. 

Love  has  no  middle  term ;  it  either  saves  or  de- 
stroys. —  Victor  Hugo. 


LOV  159  LOV 

Young  love  is  a  flame;  very  pretty,  often  very  hot 
and  fierce,  but  still  only  light  and  flickering.  The 
love  of  the  older  and  disciplined  heart  is  as  coals, 
deep-burning,  unquenchable.  — Beecher. 

In  love's  war,  he  who  flies  is  conqueror. —  Mrs, 
Osgood. 

Where  there  is  room  in  the  heart  there  is  always 
room  in  the  house.  —  Moore. 

Love 's  like  the  measles,  all  the  worse  whe'b  it 
comes  late  in  life.  —  Douglas  Jerrold. 

Only  they  conquer  love  who  run  away.  —  Carew. 

The  heart's  hushed  secret  in  the  soft  dark  eye.  — 
X.  E.  Landon. 

Love,  well  thou  know'st,  no  partnership  allows; 
cupid  averse  rejects  divided  vows.  —  Prior. 

Celestial  rosy  red,  love's  proper  hue.  —  Milton. 

Those  who  yield  their  souls  captive  to  the  brief 
intoxication  of  love,  if  no  higher  and  holier  feeling 
mingle  with  and  consecrate  their  dream  of  bliss,  will 
shrink  trembling  from  the  pangs  that  attend  their 
waking.  —  SchlegeL 

The  first  sigh  of  love  is  the  last  of  wisdom. — 
Antoine  Bret. 

I  have  enjoyed  the  happiness  of  this  world,  I  have 
lived  and  have  loved.  —  Richter. 

Life  is  a  flower  of  which  love  is  the  honey.  — Vic- 
tor Hugo. 

Love  is  a  severe  critic.  Hate  can  pardon  more 
than  love.  —  Thoreau. 

Young  love-making,  that  gossamer  web  !  Even 
the  points  it  clings  to  —  the  things  whence  its  subtle 
interlacings  are  swung  —  are  scarcely  perceptible; 
momentary  touches  of  finger-tips,  meetings  of  rays 
from  blue  and  dark  orbs,  unfinished  phrases,  lightest 
changes  of  cheek  and  lip,  faintest  tremors.  The  web 
itself  is  made  of  spontaneous  beliefs  and  indefinable 
joys,  yearnings  of  one  life  towards  another,  visions 
of  completeness,  indefinite  trust.  —  George  Eliot. 


LOV  160  LOV 

Love  is  the  loadstone  of  love.  —  Mrs.  Osgood. 

Love  is  never  lasting  which  flames  before  it  burns. 
—  Feltham. 

The  best  part  of  woman's  love  is  worship ;  but  it 
is  hard  to  her  to  be  sent  away  with  her  precious 
spikenard  rejected,  and  her  long  tresses,  too,  that 
were  let  fall  ready  to  soothe  the  wearied  feet. — 
George  Eliot. 

Love  is  an  Oriental  despot.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

We  must  love  as  looking  one  day  to  hate. — 
George  Herbert. 

Love  with  old  men  is  as  the  sun  upon  the  snow, 
it  dazzles  more  than  it  warms  them.  —  J.  Petit  Senn. 

Love  is  lowliness ;  on  the  wedding  ring  sparkles 
no  jewel.  —  Richter. 

Love  alone  is  wisdom,  love  alone  is  pov/er;  and 
where  love  seems  to  fail,  it  is  where  self  has  stepped 
between  and  dulled  the  potency  of  its  rays.  —  George 
MacDonald. 

To  speak  of  love  is  to  make  love.  — Balzac 

A  man  may  be  a  miser  of  his  wealth;  he  may  tie 
up  his  talent  in  a  napkin;  he  may  hug  hipself  in  his 
reputation;  but  he  is  always  generous, in  his  love. 
Love  cannot  stay  at  home ;  a  man  cannot  keep  it  to 
himself.  Like  light,  it  is  constantly  traveling.  A 
man  must  spend  it,  must  give  it  away.  —  Macleod. 

Repining  love  is  the  stillest;  the  shady  flowers  in 
this  spring  as  in  the  other,  shun  sunlight.  —  Richter. 

Love  is  like  the  moon;,  when  it  does  not  increase 
it  decreases  —  Se'gur. 

Love  is  the  most  terrible,  and  also  the  most  gener- 
ous of  the  passions:  it  is  the  only  one  that  includes 
in  Its  dreams  the  happiness  of  some  one  else.  — 
Alphonse  Karr. 

A  woman  whom  we  truly  love  is  a  religion.  — 
Emile  de  Girardin. 


LOV  161  LOV 

Childhood  is  only  a  wearisome  prologue:  the  first 
act  of  the  human  comedy  opens  only  at  the  moment 
when  love  makes  a  breach  in  our  hearts.  —  Arsene 
Houssaye. 

The  religion  of  humanity  is  love.  —  Mazzini. 

He  who  is  intoxicated  with  wine  will  be  sober 
again  in  the  course  of  the  night,  but  he  who  is 
intoxicated  by  the  cup-bearer  will  not  recover  his 
senses  until  the  day  of  judgment. —  Saadi. 

Love  reasons  without  reason.  —  Shakespeare. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  coming  of  love  is  like  the 
coming  of  spring  —  the  date  is  not  to  be  reckoned 
by  the  calendar.  It  may  be  slow  and  gradual;  it 
may  be  quick  and  sudden.  But  in  the  morning, 
when  we  wake  and  recognize  a  change  in  the  world 
without,  verdure  on  the  trees,  blossoms  on  the  sward, 
warmth  in  the  sunshine,  music  in  the  air,  we  say 
spring  has  come.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Love  and  a  cough  cannot  be  hid.  —  George  Herbert* 

Love  is  the  most  dunder-headed  of  all  the  pas- 
sions ;  it  never  will  listen  to  reason.  The  very  ru- 
diments of  logic  are  unknown  to  it.  "  Love  has  no 
wherefore,"  says  one  of  the  Latin  poets.  — Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

Love  in  marriage  should  be  the  accomplishment 
of  a  beautiful  dream,  and  not,  as  it  too  often  is,  the 
end.  —  Alphonse  Karr. 

One  dies  twice:  to  cease  to  live  is  nothing,  but 
to  cease  to  love  and  to  be  loved  is  an  insupportable 
death.  — Voltaire. 

The  heart  of  a  woman  is  never  so  full  of  affection 
that  there  does  not  remain  a  little  corner  for  flattery 
and  love.  —  Mauvaux. 

Love  is  always  blind  and  tears  his  hands  when- 
ever he  tries  to  gather  roses.  — Arsene  Houssaye. 

Love  is  a  canvas  furnished  by  Nature  and  em- 
broidered by  imagination.  — Voltaire. 
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LOV  162  LOV 

Oh !  I  was  mad  to  intoxicate  myself  with  the  wine 
of  love,   and  to  extend  my  hand  to  the  crown  of 

g-)ets.  Pleasure !  Poetry  !  you  are  perfidious  friends, 
ain  follows  you  closely.  —  Arsene  Hoitssaye. 

If  love  gives  wit  to  fools,  it  undoubtedly  takes  it 
from  wits.  — Alphonse  Karr. 

In  love,  as  in  everything  else,  experience  is  a 
physician  who  never  comes  until  after  the  disorder 
is  cured.  —  Mme.  de  la  Tour. 

One  expresses  well  only  the  love  he  does  not  feel. 
—  Alphonse  Karr. 

In  love,  as  in  war,  a  fortress  that  parleys  is  half 
taken.  —  Marguerite  de  Valois. 

A  supreme^  love,  a  motive  that  gives  a  sublime 
rhythm  to  a  Wpman's  life,  and  exalts  habit  into  part- 
nership with  the  soul's  highest  needs,  is  not  to  be 
had  where  and  how  she  wills:  to  know  that  high 
initiation,  she  must  often  tread  where  it  is  hard  to 
tread,  and  feel  the  chill  air,  and  watch  through  dark- 
ness. —  George  Eliot. 

To  love  one  who  loves  you,  to  admire  one  who 
admires  you,  in  a  word,  to  be  the  idol  of  one's  idol, 
is  exceeding  the  limit  of  human  joy;  it  is  stealing 
fire  from  heaven  and  deserves  death.  —  Madame  de 
Girardin. 

But  to  enlarge  or  illustrate  this  power  and  eflFects 
of  love  is  to  set  a  candle  in  the  sun.  —  Burton. 

There  are  as  many  kinds  of  love  as  there  are 
races.  A  great  tall  German,  learned,  virtuous, 
phlegmatic,  said  one  day:  "Souls  are  sisters,  fallen 
from  heaven,  who  all  at  once  recognize  and  run  to 
meet  each  other."  A  little  dry  Frenchman,  hot- 
blooded,  witty,  lively,  replied  to  him :  "  You  are 
right;  you  can  always  find  shoes  to  fit." —  Taine. 

Love  supreme  defies  all  sophistry.  —  George  Eliot. 

It  is  strange  that  men  will  talk  of  miracles,  rev- 
elations, inspiration,  and  the  like,  as  things  past, 
while  love  remains.  —  Thoreau. 


LOV  163  LUX 

The  love  of  man  to  woman  is  a  thing  common, 
and  of  course,  and  at  first  partakes  more  of  instinct 
and  passion  than  of  choice;  but  true  friendship  be- 
tween man  and  man  is  infinite  and  immortal.  — 
Plato. 

We  look  at  the  one  little  woman's  face  we  love, 
as  we  look  at  the  face  of  our  tnother  earth,  and  see 
all  sorts  of  answers  to  our  own  yearnings. —  George 
Eliot. 

Take  away  love,  and  not  physical  nature  only, 
but  the  heart  of  the  moral  world  would  be  palsied. 

—  Southey. 

Among  all  the  many  kinds  of  first  love,  that  which 
begins  in  childish  companionship  is  the  strongest 
and  most  enduring;  when  passion  comes  to  unite  its 
force  to  long  affection,  love  is  at  its  spring-tide. — 
George  Eliot. 

Nothing  quickens  the  perceptions  like  genuine 
love.  From  the  humblest  professional  attachment 
to  the  most  chivalric  devotion,  what  keenness  of  ob- 
servation is  born  under  the  influence  of  that  feeling 
which  drives  away  the  obscuring  clouds  of  selfish- 
ness, as  the  sun  consumes  the  vapor  of  the  morning. 

—  Tuckerman. 

Luck.  —  Hope  nothing  from  luck,  and  the  prob- 
ability is  that  you  will  be  so  prepared,  forewarned, 
and  forearmed,  that  all  shallow  observers  will  call 
you  lucky.  —  Bvlwer-Lytton. 

Luxury.  —  Whenever  vanity  and  gayety,  a 
love  of  pomp  and  dress,  furniture,  equipage,  build- 
ings, great  company,  expensive  diversions,  and  ele- 
gant entertainments  get  the  better  of  the  principles 
and  judgments  of  men  and  women,  there  is  no  know- 
ing where  they  will  stop,  nor  into  what  evils,  nat- 
ural, moral,  or  political,  they  will  lead  us.  —  John 
Adams. 

He  repents  on  thorns  that  sleeps  in  beds  of  roses. 

—  Quarles. 


LUX  1^4  MAD 

O  brethren,  it  is  sickening  work  to  think  of  your 
cushioned  seats,  your  chants,  your  anthems,  your 
choirs,  your  organs,  your  gowns,  and  your  bands, 
and  1  know  not  what  besides,  all  made  to  be  instru- 
ments of  rehgious  luxury,  if  not  of  pious  dissipa- 
tion, while  ye  need  far  more  to  be  stirred  up  and  in- 
cited to  holy  ardor  for  the  propagation  of  the  truth 
as  it  is  in  Jesus.  —  Spurgeon., 

O  Luxury !  Thou  curst  of  heaven's  decree.  — 
Goldsmith. 

Superfluity  comes  sooner  by  white  hairs,  but  com- 
petency lives  longer.  —  Shakespeare. 

Lying.  —  Lying  's  a  certain  mark  of  cowardice. 
—  Southern. 

There  are  people  who  lie  simply  for  the  sake  of 
lying.  —  Pascal. 

Every  brave  man  shuns  more  than  death  the 
shame  of  lying.  —  Corneille. 

It  is  a  hard  matter  for  a  man  to  lie  all  over,  nat- 
ure having  provided  king's  eyidence  in  almost  every 
member.  The  hand  will  sometimes  act  as  a  vane, 
to  show  which  way  the  wind  blows,  even  when  every 
feature  is  set  the  other  way;  the  knees  smite  to- 
gether and  sound  the  alarm  of  fear  under  a  fierce 
countenance;  the  legs  shake  with  anger,  when  all 
above  is  calm.  —  Washington  Allston. 

Lies  exist  only  to  be  extinguished.  —  Carlyle. 

A  lie  that  is  half  a  truth  is  ever  the  blackest  of 
lies.  —  Tennyson. 

M. 

Madness.  —  Many  a  man  is  mad  in  certain 
instances,  and  goes  through  life  without  having  it 
perceived.  For  example,  a  madness  has  seized  a 
person  of  supposing  himself  obliged  literally  to  pray 
continually;  had  the  madness  turned   the  opposite 


MAN  165  MAN 

way,  and  the  person  thought  it  a  crime  ever  to  pray, 
it  might  not  improbably  have  continued  unobserved. 

—  Johnson. 

Man.  —  It  is  of  dangerous  consequence  to  rep- 
resent to  man  how  near  he  is  to  the  level  of  beasts, 
without  showing  him  at  the  same  time  his  greatness. 
It  is  likewise  dangerous  to  let  him  see  his  greatness 
without  his  meanness.*  It  is  more  dangerous  yet  to 
leave  him  ignorant  of  either;  but  very  beneficial  that 
he  should  be  made  sensible  of  both.  — Pascal. 

Man,  I  tell  you,  is  a  vicious  animal.  —  Moliere. 

He  is  of  the  earth,  but  his  thoughts  are  with  the 
stars.  Mean  and  petty  his  wants  and  his  desires; 
yet  they  serve  a  soul  exalted  with  grand,  glorious 
aims,  —  with  immortal  longings,  —  with  thoughts 
which  sweep  the  heavens,  and  wander  through  eter- 
nity. A  pigmy  standing  on  the  outward  crest  of 
this  small  planet,  his  far-reaching  spirit  stretches 
outward  to  the  infinite,  and  there  alone  finds  rest. 

—  Caiiyle. 

Alas!  what  does  man  here  below?  A  little  noise 
in  much  obscurity.  —  Victor  Hugo. 

What  a  piece  of  work  is  a  man!  how  noble  in 
reason!  how  infinite  in  faculty!  in  form  and  move- 
ment, how  express  and  admirable  !  in  action,  how 
like  an  angel!  in  apprehension,  how  like  a  god! 
the  beauty  of  the  world!  the  paragon  of  animals! 

—  Shakespeare. 

Every  man  is  a  divinity  in  disguise,  a  god  playing 
the  fool.  It  seems  as  if  heaven  had  sent  its  insane 
angels  into  our  world  as  to  an  asylum.  And  here 
they  will  break  out  into  their  native  music,  and  utter 
at  intervals  the  words  they  have  heard  in  heaven  ; 
then  the  mad  fit  returns,  and  they  mope  and  wal- 
low like  dogs !  —  Emerson. 

In  my  youth  I  thought  of  writing  a  satire  on 
mankind  ;  but  now  in  my  age  I  think  1  should  write 
an  apology  for  them.  —  Walpule. 


MAN  166  MAN 

Man  is  a  reasonincf  rather  than  a  reasonable  ani- 
mal. —  Alexander  Hamilton. 

I  considered  how  little  man  is,  yet,  in  his  own 
mind,  how  great!  He  is  lord  and  master  of  all 
things,  yet  scarce  can  command  anything.  He  is 
given  a  freedom  of  his  will;  but  wherefore?  Was 
it  but  to  torment  and  perplex  him  the  more?  How 
little  avails  this  freedom,  if  the  objects  he  is  to  act 
upon  be  not  as  much  disposed  to  obey  as  he  is  to 
command !  —  Burke. 

Men's  natures  are  neither  white  nor  black,  but 
brown.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

He  is  compounded  of  two  very  different  ingredi- 
ents, spirit  and  matter;  but  how  such  unallied  and 
disproportioned  substances  should  act  upon  each 
other,  no  man's  learning  yet  could  tell  him.  — Jer- 
emy  Collier. 

Man  is  the  highest  product  of  his  own  history. 
The  discoverer  finds  nothing  so  grand  or  tall  as  him- 
self, nothing  so  valuable  to  him.  The  greatest  star 
is  at  the  small  end  of  the  telescope,  the  star  that 
is  looking,  not  looked  after  nor  looked  at.  —  Theo- 
dore Parker. 

Men  are  but  children  of  a  larger  growth ;  our  ap- 
petites are  apt  to  change  as  theirs,  and  full  as  crav- 
ing, too,  and  full  as  vain. . —  Dryden. 

Little  things  are  great  to  little  men.  —  Goldsmith. 

Man  himself  is  the  crowning  wonder  of  creation; 
the  study  of  his  nature  the  noblest  study  the  world 
affords.  —  Gladstone. 

Limited  in  his  nature,  infinite  in  his  desires.  — 
Lamartine.  * 

Manners. —  A  man  ought  to  carry  himself 
in  the  world  as  an  orange  tree  would  if  it  ^ould 
walk  up  and  down  in  the  garden,  swinging  per- 
fume from  every  little  censer  it  holds  up  to  the  air. 
—  Beecher. 


MAN  167  MAN 

All  manners  take  a  tincture  from  our  own.  — 
Pope. 

I  have  seen  manners  that  make  a  similar  impres- 
sion with  personal  beauty,  that  give  the  like  exhil- 
aration and  refine  us  like  that;  and  in  memorable 
experiences  they  are  suddenly  better  than  beauty, 
and  make  that  superfluous  and  ugly.  But  they  must 
be  marked  by  fine  perception,  the  acquaintance  with 
real  beauty.  They  must  always  show  control;  you 
shall  not  be  facile,  apologetic,  or  leaky,  but  king 
over  your  word ;  and  every  gesture  and  action  shall 
indicate  power  at  rest.  They  must  be  inspired  by 
the  good  heart.  There  is  no  beautifier  of  com- 
plexion, or  form,  or  behavior,  like  the  wish  to  scat- 
ter joy,  and  not  pain,  around  us.  —  Emerson. 

We  perhaps  never  detect  how  much  of  our  social 
demeanor  is  made  up  of  artificial  airs,  until  we  see 
a  person  who  is  at  once  beautiful  and  simple:  with- 
out the  beauty,  we  are  apt  to  call  simplicity  awk- 
wardness. —  George  Eliot. 

We  cannot  always  oblige,  but  we  can  always 
speak  obligingly. —  Voltaire. 

Nature  is  the  best  posture-master.  —  Emerson. 

Good  breeding  consists  in  having  no  particular 
mark  of  any  profession,  but  a  general  elegance  of 
manners.  —  Johnson. 

Men  are  like  wine;  not  good  before  the  lees  of 
clownishness  be  settled.  —  Feltham. 

The  person  who  screams,  or  uses  the  superlative 
degree,  or  converses  with  heat,  puts  whole  drawing- 
rooms  to  flight.  If  you  wish  to  be  loved,  love  meas- 
ure. You  must  have  genius  or  a  prodigious  use- 
fulness if  you  will  hide  the  want  of  measure. — 
Emerson. 

We  are  to  carry  it  from  the  hand  to  the  heart, 
ttf  improve  a  ceremonial  nicety  into  a  substantial 
duty,  and  the  modes  of  civility  into  the  realities  of 
religion.  —  South. 


MAN  168  MAR 

Better  were  it  to  be  unborn  than  to  be  ill-bred. 

—  Sir  W.  Raleigh, 

Simplicity  of  manner  is  the  last  attainment.  Men 
are  very  long  afraid  of  being  natural,  from  the  dread 
of  being  taken  for  ordinary.  — Jeffrey. 

Kings  themselves  cannot  force  the  exquisite  po- 
liteness of  distance  to  capitulate,  hid  behind  its  shield 
of  bronze. — Balzac.  , 

Comport  thyself  in  life  as  at  a  banquet.  If  a 
plate  is  offered  thee,  extend  thy  hand  and  take  it 
moderately;  if  it  be  withdrawn,  do  not  detain  it. 
If  it  come  not  to  thy  side,  make  not  thy  desire  loudly 
known,  but  wait  patiently  till  it  be  offered  thee.  — 
Epictetus. 

Good  manners  and  good  morals  are  sworn  friends 
and  firm  allies.  —  Bartol. 

The  "  over-formal "  often  impede,  and  some- 
times frustrate,  business  by  a  dilatory,  tedious,  cir- 
cuitous, and  (what  in  colloquial  language  is  called) 
fussy  way  of  conducting  the  simplest  transactions. 
They  have  been  compared  to  a  dog  which  cannot  lie 
down  till  he  has  made  three  circuits  round  the  spot. 

—  Whately. 

Martyrs.  —  Even  in  this  world  they  will  have 
their  judgment-day,  and  their  names,  which  went 
down  in  the  dust  like  a  gallant  banner  trodden  in 
the  mire,  shall  rise  again  all  glorious  in  the  sight  of 
nations.  —  Mrs.  Slowe. 

It  is  not  the  death  that  makes  the  martyr,  but  the 
cause.  —  Canon  Dale. 

It  is  admirable  to  die  the  victim  of  one's  faith;  it 
is  sad  to  die  the  dupe  of  one's  ambition.  —  Lamar- 
tine. 

God  discovers  the  martyr  and  confessor  without 
the  trial  of  flames  and  tortures,  and  will  hereafter 
entitle  many  to  the  reward  of  actions  which  they 
had  never  the  opportunity  of  performing.  —  Addi- 
son. 


MAT  169  MAT 

Matrimony.  —  When  a  man  and  woman  are 
married  their  romance  ceases  and  their  history  com- 
mences. —  Rochehrune. 

It  resembles  a  pair  of  shears,  so  joined  that  they 
cannot  be  separated;  often  moving  in  opposite  di- 
rections, yet  always  punishing  any  one  who  comes 
between  them.  —  S.  Smith. 

Married  in  haste,  we  repent  at  leisure.  —  Con- 
greve. 

I  believe  marriages  would  in  general  be  as  happy, 
and  often  more  so,  if  they  were  all  made  by  the 
Lord  Chancellor,  upon  a  due  consideration  of  the 
characters  and  circumstances,  without  the  parties 
having  any  choice  in  the  matter.  —  Johnson. 

Hanging  and  wiving  go  by  destiny.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

The  married  man  is  like  the  bee  that  fixes  his 
hive,  augments  the  world,  benefits  the  republic,  and 
by  a  daily  diligence,  without  wronging  any,  profits 
all;  but  he  who  contemns  wedlock,  like  a  wasp,  wan- 
ders an  offence  to  the  world,  lives  upon  spoil  and 
rapine,  disturbs  peace,  steals  sweets  that  are  none 
of  his  own,  and,  by  robbing  the  hives  of  others, 
meets  misery  as  his  due  reward.  —  Feltham. 

One  can,  with  dignity,  be  wife  and  widow  but 
once.  —  .Joubert. 

Few  natures  can  preserve  through  years  the  poetry 
of  the  first  passionate  illusion.  That  can  alone  ren- 
der wedlock  the  seal  that  confirms  affection,  and  not 
the  mocking  ceremonial  that  consecrates  its  grave. 
—  Bulicer-Lytton. 

It's  hard  to  wive  and  thrive  both  in  a  year. — 
Tennyson. 

Maids  want  nothing  but  husbands,  and  when  they 
have  them,  they  want  everything. —  Shakespeare. 

Wedlock  's  like  wine,  not  properly  judged  of  till 
the  second  glass.  —  Douglas  Jen-old. 


MAT  170  MED 

A  good  wife  is  like  the  ivy  which  beautifies  the 
building  to  which  it  clings,  twining  its  tendrils  more 
lovingly  as  time  converts  the  ancient  edifice  into  a 
ruin.  —  Johnson. 

He  that  marries  is  like  the  Doge  who  was  wedded 
to  the  Adriatic.  He  knows  not  what  there  is  in  that 
which  he  marries  :  mayhap  treasures  and  pearls, 
mayhap  monsters  and  tempests,  await  him.  —  Hein- 
rich  Heine. 

A  husband  is  a  plaster  that  cures  all  the  ills  of 
girlhood.  —  Moliere. 

There  is  more  of  good  nature  than  of  good  sense 
at  the  bottom  of  most  marriages.  —  Thoreau. 

The  love  of  some  men  for  their  wives  is  like  that 
of  Alfieri  for  his  horse.  "  My  attachment  for  him," 
said  he,  "  went  so  far  as  to  destroy  my  peace  every 
time  that  he  had  the  least  ailment ;  but  my  love  for 
him  did  not  prevent  me  from  fretting  and  chafing 
him  whenever  he  did  not  wish  to  go  my  way."  — 
Bovee. 

No  navigator  has  yet  traced  lines  of  latitude  and 
longitude  on  the  conjugal  sea.  — Balzac. 

Has  any  one  ever  pinched  into  its  pilulous  small- 
ness  the  cobweb  of  pre-matrimonial  acquaintance- 
ship? —  George  Eliot. 

Mediocrity.  —  Mediocrity  is  excellent  to  the 
eyes  of  mediocre  people.  —  Jouhert. 

Mediocrity  is  now,  as  formerly,  dangerous,  com- 
monly fatal,  to  the  poet ;  but  among  even  the  suc- 
cessful writers  of  prose,  those  who  rise  sensibly 
above  it  are  the  very  rarest  exceptions.  —  Glad- 
stone. 

Meditation.  —  Chewing  the  cud  of  sweet 
and  bitter  fancy.  —  Shakespeare. 

'T  is  greatly  wise  to  talk  with  our  past  hours,  and 
ask  them  what  report  they  bore  to  heaven,  and  how 
they  might  have  borne  more  welcome  news.  — Young. 


MED  171  MEM 

Meditation  is  that  exercise  of  the  mind  by  which 
it  recalls  a  known  truth,  as  some  kind  of  creatures 
do  their  food,  to  be  ruminated  upon  till  all  vicious 
parts  be  extracted.  — Bishop  Home. 

Meekness.  —  The  flower  of  meekness  grows 
on  a  stem  of  grace.  —  J.  Montgomery. 

A  boy  was  once  asked  what  meekness  was.  He 
thought  for  a  moment  and  said,  "Meekness  gives 
smooth  answers  to  rough  questions."  — Mrs.  Balfour. 

Melancholy.  —  Melancholy  is  a  fearful  gift ; 
what  is  it  but  the  telescope  of  truth  V  —  Byron. 

A  hizy  frost,  a  numbness  of  the  mind.  —  Dry  den. 

Demoniac  frenzy,  moping  melancholy. —  Milton. 

The  noontide  sun  is  dark,  and  music  discord, 
when  the  heart  is  low.  —  Young. 

Memory.  —  Memory  is  what  makes  us  young 
or  old.  —  Alfred  de  Musset. 

No  canvas  absorbs  color  like  memory.  —  Will- 
mott. 

Of  all  the  faculties  of  the  mind,  memory  is  the 
fir.st  that  flourishes,  and  the  first  that  dies.  —  Col- 
ton. 

Joy's  recollection  is  no  longer  joy  ;  but  sorrow's 
nu'mory  is  sorrow  still.  —  Byron. 

A  ?ealed  book,  at  whose  contents  we  tremble.  — 
L.  E.  Landon. 

And  fondly  mourn  the  dear  delusions  gone.  — 
Prior. 

How  can  such  deep-imprinted  images  sleep  in  us 
at  times,  till  a  word,  a  sound,  awake  them  ?  —  Les- 
sing. 

In  literature  and  art  memory  is  a  synonym  for 
invention;  it  is  the  life-blood  of  imagination,  which 
faints  and  dies  when  the  veins  are  empty.  —  Will~ 
mott. 

Memory  is  the  scribe  of  the  soul.  —  Aristotle. 


MEM  172  MIL 

The  memory  has  as  many  moods  as  the  temper, 
and  shifts  its  scenery  like  a  diorama.  —  George 
Eliot. 

We  must  always  have  old  memories  and  young 
hopes.  —  Arsene  Houssaye, 

They  teach  us  to  remember;  why  do  not  they 
teach  us  to  forget?  There  is  not  a  man  living  who 
has  not,  some  time  in  his  life,  admitted  that  memory 
was  as  much  of  a  curse  as  a  blessing.  — F.  A.Duri- 
vage. 

Mercy.  —  Mercy  more  becomes  a  magistrate 
than  the  vindictive  wrath  which  men  call  justice!  — 
Longfellow. 

Nothing  emboldens  sin  so  much  as  mercy.  — 
Shakespeare. 

'T  is  mightiest  in  the  mightiest;  it  becomes  the 
throned  monarch  better  than  his  crown.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Give  money,  but  never  lend  it.  Giving  it  only 
makes  a  man  ungrateful;  lending  it  makes  him  an 
enemy.  —  Dumas. 

Mercy  among  the  virtues  is  like  the  moon  among 
the  stars,  —  not  so  sparkling  and  vivid  as  many,  but 
dispensing  a  calm  radiance  that  hallows  the  whole. 
It  is  the  bow  that  rests  upon  the  bosom  of  the  cloud 
when  the  storm  is  past.  It  is  the  light  that  hovers 
above  the  judgment-seat.  —  Chapin. 

We  hand  folks  over  to  God's  mercy,  and  show 
none  ourselves.  —  George  EUot. 

Among  the  attributes  of  God,  although  they  are 
all  equal,  mercy  shines  with  even  more  brilliancy 
than  justice. —  Cervantes. 

Milton  .  —  His  poetry  reminds  us  of  the  mira- 
cles of  Alpine  scenery.  Nooks  and  dells,  beautiful 
as  fairy  land,  are  embosomed  in  its  most  rugged  and 
gigantic  elevations.  The  roses  and  myrtles  bloom 
unchilled  on  the  verge  of  the  avalanche.  — Macaulay, 


MIN  173  MIS 

Mind.—  It  is  witli  diseases  of  the  mind  as  with 
diseases  of  tlie  body,  we  are  half  dead  before  we  un- 
derstand our  disorder,  and  half  cured  when  we  do. 
—  CoUon. 

The  end  which  at  present  calls  forth  our  efforts 
will  be  found  when  it  is  once  gained  to  be  only  one 
of  the  means  to  some  remoter  end.  The  natural 
flights  of  the  human  mind  are  not  from  i)leasure  to 
pleasure,  but  from  hope  to  hope.  —  Johnson. 

Minds  filled  with  vivid,  imaginative  thoughts,  are 
the  most  indolent  in  reproducing.  Clear,  cold,  hard 
minds  are  productive.  They  have  to  retrace  a  very 
simple  design.  —  X,  Doudan. 

The  mind  is  the  atmosphere  of  the  soul.  —  Jouberi, 

What  is  this  little,  agile,  precious  fire,  this  flutter- 
ing motion  which  we  call  the  mind?  —  Prior. 

Just  as  a  particular  soil  wants  some  one  element 
to  fertilize  it,  just  as  the  body  in  some  conditions 
has  a  kind  of  famine  for  one  special  food,  so  the  mind 
has  its  wants,  which  do  not  always  call  for  what  is 
best,  but  which  know  themselves  and  are  as  peremp- 
tory as  the  salt  sick  sailor's  call  for  a  lemon  or  raw 
potato.  —  Holmes. 

The  best  way  to  prove  the  clearness  of  our  mind 
is  by  showing  its  faults;  as  when  a  stream  discovers 
the  dirt  at  the  bottom,  it  convinces  us  of  the  trans- 
parency of  the  water.  —  Pope. 

A  mind  once  cultivated  will  not  lie  fallow  for  half 
an  hour.  —  Bulwer-Lylton. 

Mischief.  —  The  opportunity  to  do  mischief 
is  found  a  hundred  times  a  day,  and  that  of  doing 
good  once  a  year.  —  Voltaire. 

Miser.  —  The  miser  swimming  in  gold  seems  to 
me  like  a  thirsty  fish.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 


MIS  174  MIS 

In  all  meanness  there  is  a  deficit  of  intellect  as 
well  as  of  heart,  and  even  the  cleverness  of  avarice 
is  but  the  cunning  of  imbecility.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Misery.  —  There  are  a  good  many  real  miseries 
in  life  that  we  cannot  help  smiling  at,  but  they  are 
the  smiles  that  make  wrinkles  and  not  dimples. — 
Holmes. 

Misery  is  so  little  appertaining  to  our  nature,  and 
happiness  so  much  so,  that  we  in  the  same  degree 
of  illusion  only  lament  over  that  which  has  pained 
us,  but  leave  unnoticed  that  which  has  rejoiced  us.  — 
RicJiter, 

Misfortune.  —  If  all  the  misfortunes  of  man- 
kind were  cast  into  a  public  stock,  in  order  to  be 
equally  distributed  among  the  whole  species,  those 
who  now  think  themselves  the  most  unhappy  would 
prefer  the  share  they  are  already  possessed  of  be- 
fore that  which  would  fall  to  them  by  such  a  divi- 
sion. —  Socrates. 

Depend  upon  it,  that  if  a  man  talks  of  his  misfor- 
tunes there  is  something  in  them  that  is  not  disagree- 
able to  him;  for  where  there  is  nothing  but  pure 
misery,  there  never  is  any  recourse  to  the  mention 
of  it.  — Johnson. 

Flowers  never  emit  so  sweet  and  strong  a  fra- 
grance as  before  a  storm.  Beauteous  soul!  when  a 
storm  approaches  thee  be  as  fragrant  as  a  sweet- 
smelling  flower.  —  Richter. 

Our  bravest  lessons  are  not  learned  through  suc- 
cess, but  misadventure. — Alcott. 

There  is  a  chill  air  surrounding  those  who  are 
down  in  the  world,  and  people  are  glad  to  get  away 
from  them,  as  from  a  cold  room. —  George  Eliot. 

Men  shut  their  doors  against  the  setting  sun.  — 
Shakespeare. 
He  that  is  down  needs  fear  no  fall.  —  Bunyan. 


MOD  175  MOD 

Moderation.  —  Till  men  have  been  some  time 
free,  they  know  not  how  to  use  their  freedom.  The 
natives  of  wine  countries  are  generally  sober.  In 
climates  where  wine  is  a  rarity  intemperance  abounds. 
A  newly  liberated  people  may  be  compared  to  a 
Northern  army  encamped  on  the  Rhine  or  the  Xeres. 
It  is  said  that,  when  soldiers  in  such  a  situation  first 
find  themselves  able  to  indulge  without  restraint  in 
such  a  rare  and  expensive  luxury,  nothing  is  to  be 
seen  but  intoxication.  Soon,  however,  plenty  teaches 
discretion;  and  after  wine  has  been  for  a  few  months 
their  daily  fare,  they  become  more  temperate  than 
they  had  ever  been  in  their  own  country.  In  the 
same  manner,  the  final  and  permanent  fruits  of  lib- 
erty are  wisdom,  moderation,  and  mercy.  —  Macau- 
lay. 

The  superior  man  wishes  to  be  slow  in  his  words, 
and  earnest  in  his  conduct.  —  Confucius. 

Let  a  man  take  time  enough  for  the  most  trivial 
deed,  though  it  be  but  the  paring  of  his  nails.  The 
buds  swell  imperceptibly,  without  hurry  or  confu- 
sion; as  if  the  short  spring  days  were  an  eternity. — 
Thoreau. 

It  is  a  little  stream  which  flows  softly,  but  freshens 
everything  along  its  course.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Modesty.  —  False  modesty  is  the  last  refine- 
ment of  vanity.     It  is  a  lie.  —  Bruyere. 

The  first  of  all  virtues  is  innocence;  the  next  is 
modesty.  If  we  banish  Modesty  out  of  the  world, 
she  carries  away  with  her  half  the  virtue  that  is  in 
it.  —  Addison. 

He  of  his  port  was  meek  as  is  a  maid.  —  Chaucer. 

Modesty  is  the  lowest  of  the  virtues,  and  is  a  con- 
fession of  the  deficiency  it  indicates.  He  who  un- 
dervalues himself  is  justly  undervalued  by  others. — 
Hazlitt. 

Modesty,  who,  when  she  goes,  is  gone  forever.  — 
Landor. 


MOD  176  MON 

Modesty  is  tlie  conscience  of  the  body.  —  Balzac. 

There  are  as  many  kinds  of  modesty  as  there  are 
races.  To  the  English  woman  it  is  a  duty;  to  the 
French  woman  a  propriety.  —  Taine. 

Virtue  which  shuns  the  day.  —  Addison. 

Modesty  and  the  dew  love  the  shade.  Each  shine 
in  the  open  day  only  to  be  exhaled  to  heaven.  — 
J.  Petit  Senn. 

Modesty  is  still  a  provocation.  —  Poincelot. 

Modesty  is  the, chastity  of  merit,  the  virginity  of 
noble  souls.  —  E.  de  Girardin. 

Money.  —  Wisdom,  knowledge,  power  —  all 
combined.  —  Byron. 

Oh,  wliat  a  world  of  vile  ill-favored  faults  looks 
handsome  in  three  hundred  pounds  a  year !  — Shake- 
speare. 

It  is  my  opinion  that  a  man's  soul  may  be  buried 
and  perish  under  a  dung-heap,  or  in  a  furrow  of  the 
field,  just  as  well  as  under  a  pile  of  money.  — Haw- 
ihorne. 

If  you  would  know  the  value  of  money,  go  and  try 
to  borrow  some;  for  he  that  goes  a-borrovving  goes 
a-sorrowing.  —  Franklin. 

Make  all  you  can,  save  all  you  can,  give  all  you 
can. —  Wesley. 

The  avaricious  love  of  gain,  which  is  so  feelingly 
deplored,  appears  to  us  a  principle  which,  in  able 
hands,  might  be  guided  to  the  most  salutary  pur- 
poses. The  object  is  to  encourage  the  love  of  labor, 
which  is  best  encouraged  by  the  love  of  money.  — 
Sydney  Smith. 

Ready  money  is  Aladdin's  lamp.  — Byron. 

Money  does  all  things;  for  it  gives  and  ifc  takes 
away,  it  makes  honest  men  and  knaves,  fools  and 
philosophers ;  and  so  forward,  mutatis  mutandis j  to 
the  end  of  the  chapter.  —  L' Estrange. 


MON  177  MOR 

Mammon  is  the  largest  slave-holder  in  the  world. 
—  Fred.  Saunders. 

But  for  money  and  the  need  of  it,  there  would  not 
be  half  the  friendship  in  the  world.  It  is  powerful 
for  good  if  divinely  used.  Give  it  plenty  of  air  and 
it  is  sweet  as  the  hawthorn ;  shut  it  up  and  it  can- 
kers and  breeds  worms.  —  George  MacDonald, 

Money,  the  life-blood  of  the  nation.  —  Swift. 

Moon.  —  The  silver  empress  of  the  night. — 
Tickell. 

How  sweet  the  moonlight  sleeps  upon  this  bank. — 
Shakespeare. 

Mysterious  veil  of  brightness  made.  —  Butler* 

Cynthia,  fair  regent  of  the  night.  —  Gay. 

The  maiden  moon  in  her  mantle  of  blue.  — Joaquin 
Miller. 

Morals.  —  Every  age  and  every  nation  has  cer- 
tain characteristic  vices,  which  prevail  almost  uni- 
versally, which  scarcely  any  person  scruples  to  avow, 
and  which  even  rigid  moralists  but  faintly  censure. 
Succeeding  generations  change  the  fashion  of  their 
morals  with  the  fashion  of  their  hats  and  their 
coaches;  take  some  other  kind  of  wickedness  under 
their  patronage,  and  wonder  at  the  depravity  of 
their  ancestors.  —  Macaulay. 

We  like  the  expression  of  Raphael's  faces  with- 
out an  edict  to  enforce  it.  I  do  not  see  why  there 
should  not  be  a  taste  in  morals  formed  on  the  same 
principle.  —  Hazlitt. 

Do  not  be  too  moral.  You  may  cheat  yourself  out 
of  much  life  so.  Aim  above  morality.  Be  not  sim- 
ply good;  be  good  for  something.  —  Thoreau. 

Morning.  —  Vanished  night,  shot  through  with 
orient  beams.  —  Milton. 

The  dewy  morn,  with  breath  all  incense,  and  with 
cheek  all  bloom.  —  Byron. 
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MOR  178  MOT 

Jocund  day  stands  tiptoe  on  the  misty  mountain 
top.  —  Shakespeare. 

When  the  glad  sun,  exulting  in  hi&  might,  comes 
from  the  dusky-curtained  tents  of  night.  — Emma 
C.  Embury. 

The  cock,  that  is  the  trumpet  of  the  morn,  doth 
with  his  lofty  and  shrill-sounding  throat  awake  the 
god  of  day.  —  Shakespeare. 

Its  brightness,  mighty  divinity!  has  a  fleeting  em- 
pire over  the  day,  giving  gladness  to  the  fields,  color 
to  the  flowers,  the  season  of  the  loves,  harmonious 
hour  of  wakening  birds.  —  Calderon. 

Temperate  as  the  morn.  —  Shakespeare. 

I  was  always  an  early  riser.  Happy  the  man  who 
is!  Every  morning  day  comes  to  him  with  a  virgin's 
love,  full  of  bloom  and  freshness.  The  youth  of 
nature  is  contagious,  like  the  gladness  of  a  happy 
child.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Mother.  —  Children,  look  in  those  eyes.  Hsten 
to  that  dear  voice,  notice  the  feeling  of  even  a  single 
touch  that  is  bestowed  upon  you  by  that  gentle 
hand!  Make  much  of  it  wliile  yet  you  have  that 
most  precious  of  all  good  gifts,  a  loving  mother. 
Read  the  unfathomable  love  of  those  eyes;  the  kind 
anxiety  of  that  tone  and  look,  however  slight  your 
pain.  In  after  life  you  may  have  friends,  fond,  dear 
friends,  but  never  will  yoii  have  again  the  inexpres- 
sible love  and  gentleness  lavished  upon  you  .which 
none  but  a  mother  bestows.  —  Macaulay. 

Nature's  loving  proxy,  the  watchful  mother.  — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 

I  believe  I  should  have  been  swept  away  by  the 
flood  of  French  infidelity,  if  it  had  not  been  for 
one  thing,  the  remembrance  of  the  time  when  my 
sainted  mother  used  to  make  me  kneel  by  her  side, 
taking  my  little  hands  folded  in  hers,  and  caused  me 
to  repeat  the  Lord's  Prayer.  —  Thomas  Randolph, 


MOT  179  MOU 

The  mother's  yearning,  that  completest  type  of 
the  life  in  another  life  which  is  the  essence  of  real 
human  love,  feels  the  presence  of  the  cherished  child 
even  in  the  base,  degraded  man.  —  George  Eliot. 

When  Eve  was  l^rought  unto  Adam,  he  became 
filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  gave  her  the  most 
sanctified,  the  most  glorious  of  appellations.  He 
called  her  Eva,  that  is  to  say,  the  Mother  of  All. 
He  did  not  style  her  wife,  but  simply  mother,  — 
mother  of  all  living  creatures.  In  this  consists  the 
glory  and  the  most  precious  ornament  of  woman.  — 
Luther. 

There  is  in  all  this  cold  and  hollow  world  no 
fount  of  deep,  strong,  deathless  love,  save  that  within 
a  mother's  heart.  — Hemans. 

Motive.  —  The  morality  of  an  action  depends 
upon  the  motive  from  which  we  act.  If  I  fling  half- 
a-crown  to  a  beggar  with  intention  to  break  his 
head,  and  he  picks  it  up  and  buys  victuals  with  it, 
the  physical  effect  is  good;  but  with  respect  to  me, 
the  action  is  very  wrong.  —  Johnson. 

Whatever  touches  the  nerves  of  motive,  what- 
ever shifts  man's  moral  position,  is  mightier  than 
steam,  or  caloric,  or  lightning.  —  Chapin. 

Let  the  motive  be  in  the  deed  and  not  in  the 
event.  Be  not  one  whose  motive  for  action  is  the 
hope  of  reward.  —  Kreeshna. 

We  must  not  inquire  too  curiously  into  motives. 
They  are  apt  to  become  feeble  in  the  utterance:  the 
aroma  is  mixed  with  the  grosser  air.  We  must  keep 
the  germinating  grain  away  from  the  light.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Every  activity  proposes  to  itself  a  passivity,  every 
labor  enjoyment.  —  Jacobi. 

Mourning.  —  Oh,  for  the  touch  of  a  vanished 
hand,  and  the  sound  of  a  voice  that  is  still!  — 
Tennyson. 


MOU  180  MUS 

The  meek-ey'd  morn  appears,  mother  of  dews. 

—  Thomson. 

Music.  —  Sentimentally  I  am  disposed  to  har- 
mony, but  organically  I  am  incapable  of  a  tune.  — 
Lamb. 

All  musical  people  seem  to  be  happy;  it  is  the 
engrossing  pursuit;  almost  the  only  innocent  and 
unpunished  passion.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Where  painting  is  weakest,  namely,  in  the  ex- 
pression of  the  highest  moral  and  spiritual  ideas, 
there  music  is  sublimely  strong.  —  Mrs.  Stoioe. 

There  is  something  marvelous  in  music.  I  might 
almost  say  that  music  is,  in  itself,  a  marvel.  Its 
position  is  somewhere  between  the  region  of  thought 
and  that  of  phenomena ;  a  glimmering  medium  be- 
tween mind  and  matter,  related  to  both  and  yet  dif- 
fering from  either.  Spiritual,  and  yet  requiring 
rhythm;  material,  and  yet  independent  of  space. — 
Heinrich  Heine. 

The  hidden  soul  of  harmony.  —  Milton. 

Give  me  some  music!  music,  moody  food  of  us 
that  trade  in  love.  —  Shakespeare. 

Explain  it  as  we  may,  a  martial  strain  will  urge  a 
man  into  the  front  rank  of  battle  sooner  than  an 
argument,  and  a  fine  anthem  excite  his  devotion 
more  certainly  than  a  logical  discourse. — Tuckerman. 

Such  sweet  compulsion  doth  in  music  lie.  —  Mil- 
ton. 

Music,  in  the  best  sense,  does  not  require  novelty; 
nay,  the  older  it  is,  and  the  more  we  are  accustomed 
to  it,  the  greater  its  effect.  —  Goethe. 

Music,  which  gentler  on  the  spirit  lies  than  tired 
eyelids  upon  tired  eyes.  —  Tennyson. 

Melodies  die  out  like  the  pipe  of  Pan,  with  the 
ears  that  love  them  and  listen  for  them.  —  George 
Eliot, 


MUS  181  NAT 

Music  can  noble  hints  impart,  engender  fury,  kin- 
dle love,  with  unsuspected  eloquence  can  move  and 
manage  all  the  man  with  secret  art.  —  Addison. 

Music  is  the  harmonious  voice  of  creation  ;  an 
echo  of  the  invisible  world ;  one  note  of  the  divine 
concord  which  the  entire  universe  is  destined  one 
day  to  sound.  —  MazzinL 


N. 

Naivete. —  Naivete  is  the  language  of  pure 
genius  and  of  discerning  simplicity.  It  is  the  most 
simple  picture  of  a  refined  and  ingenious  idea  ;  a 
masterpiece  of  art  in  him  in  whom  it  is  not  natural. 

—  M£nddssohn. 

Name.  —  A  virtuous  name  is  the  precious  only 
good  for  which  queens  and  peasants'  wives  must 
contest  together.  —  Schiller. 

A  man's  name  is  not  like  a  mantle  which  merely 
hangs  about  him,  and  which  one  perchance  may 
safely  twitch  and  pull,  but  a  perfectly  fitting  gar- 
ment, which,  like  the  skin,  has  grown  over  and  over 
him,  at  which  one  cannot  rake  and  scrape  without 
injuring  the  man  himself.  —  Goethe. 

Napoleon.  —  Whose  game  was  empires,  and 
whose  stakes  were  thrones.  —  Byron. 

Napoleon  I.  might  have  been  the  Washington  of 
France ;  he  preferred  to  be  another  Attila,  —  a  ques- 
tion of  taste.  — F.  A.  Dwivage. 

Nature.  —  Nature  has  no  mind ;  every  man  who 
addresses  her  is  compelled  to  force  upon  her  for  a 
moment  the  loan  of  his  own  mind.  And  if  she  an- 
swers a  question  which  his  own  mind  puts  to  her,  it 
is  only  by  such  a  reply  as  his  own  mind  teaches  to 
her  parrot-like  lips.  And  as  every  man  has  a  dif- 
ferent mind,  so  every  man  gets  a  different  answer. 

—  Bulwer-Lytton. 


NAT  182  NAT 

Nature  will  be  buried  a  great  time,  and  yet  revive 
upon  the  occasion  or  temptation:  like  as  it  was  with 
^sop's  damsel,  turned  from  a  cat  to  a  woman,  who 
sat  very  demurely  at  the  board's  end  till  a  mouse 
ran  before  her.  —  Bacon. 

Virtue,  as  understood  by  the  world,  is  a  constant 
struggle  against  the  laws  of  nature.  —  De  Finod. 

Nature,  —  a  thing  which  science  and  art  never  ap- 
pear to  see  with  the  same  eyes.  If  to  an  artist  Nat- 
ure has  a  soul,  why,  so  has  a  steam-engine.  Art  gifts 
with  soul  all  matter  that  it  contemplates  ;  science 
turns  all  that  is  already  gifted  with  soul  into  matter. 
—  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Nature  is  too  thin  a  screen;  the  glory  of  the  One 
breaks  in  everywhere.  —  Emerson. 

Nature  is  poetic,  but  not  mankind.  When  one 
aims  at  truth  it  is  easier  to  find  the  poetic  side  of 
nature  than  of  man.  — X.  Doudnn. 

All  nature  is  a  vast  symbolism;  every  material 
fact  has  sheathed  within  it  a  spiritual  truth.  — 
Chapin. 

Nature  is  no  sentimentalist,  —  does  not  cosset  or 
pamper  us.  We  must  see  that  the  world  is  rough 
and  surly,  and  will  not  mind  drowning  a  man  or  a 
woman,  but  swallows  your  ships  like  a  grain  of  dust. 
The  cold,  inconsiderate  of  persons,  tingles  your  blood, 
benumbs  your  feet,  freezes  a  man  like  an  apple. 
The  diseases,  the  elements,  fortune,  gravity,  light- 
ning, respect  no  persons.  —  Emerson. 

Nature  imitates  herself.  A  grain  thrown  into 
good  ground  brings  forth  fruit:  a  principle  thrown 
into  a  good  mind  brings  forth  fruit.  Everything  is 
created  and  conducted  by  the  same  Master, — the 
root,  the  branch,  the  fruits,  —  the  principles,  the 
consequences.  —  Pascal. 

A  noble  nature  can  alone  attract  the  noble,  and 
alone  knows  how  to  retain  them.  —  Goethe. 

Nature,  the  vicar  of  the  almighty  Lord. — Chaucer, 


NAT  183  NEC 

A  poet  ought  not  to  pick  Nature's  pocket.  Let 
him  borrow,  and  so  borrow  as  to  repay  by  the  very 
act  of  borrowing.  Examine  nature  accurately,  but 
write  from  recollection,  and  trust  more  to  the  imag- 
ination than  the  memory.  —  Coleridge. 

We,  by  art,  unteach  what  Nature  taught.  —  Dry- 
den. 

Nature  is  the  armory  of  genius.  Cities  serve  it 
poorly,  books  and  colleges  at  second  hand;  the  eye 
craves  the  spectacle  of  the  horizon,  of  mountain, 
ocean,  river  and  plain,  the  clouds  and  stars;  actual 
contact  with  the  elements,  sympathy  with  the  sea- 
sons as  they  rise  and  roll.  — AlcotU 

Nothing  is  rich  but  the  inexhaustible  wealth  of 
Nature.  She  shows  us  only  surfaces,  but  she  is 
million  fathoms  deep.  —  Emerson. 

Nature  is  an  absolute  and  jealous  divinity.  Lovely, 
eloquent,  and  instructive  in  all  her  inequalities  ancl 
contrasts,  she  hides  her  face,  and  remains  mute  to 
those  who,  by  attempting  to  re-fashion  her,  profane 
her.  —  Mazzlni, 

Necessity.  —  Necessity  is  a  bad  recommen- 
dation to  favors  of  any  kind,  which  as  seldom  fall  to 
those  who  really  want  them,  as  to  those  who  really 
deserve  them.  — Fielding. 

It  is  observed  in  the  golden  verses  of  Pythagoras, 
that  power  is  never  far  from  necessity.  The  vigor 
of  the  human  mind  quickly  appears  when  there  is 
no  longer  any  place  for  doubt  and  hesitation,  when 
diffidence  is  absorbed  in  the  sense  of  danger,  or  over- 
whelmed by  some  resistless  passion.  —  Johnson. 

When  God  would  educate  a  man  He  compels  him 
to  learn  bitter  lessons.  He  sends  him  to  school  to 
the  necessities  rather  than  to  the  graces,  that,  by 
knowing  all  suffering,  he  may  know  also  the  eternal 
consolation. —  Celia  Burleigh. 

Necessity  may  render  a  doubtful  act  innocent,  but 
it  cannot  make  it  praiseworthy.  —  Joubert. 


NEC  184  NEW 

What  was  once  to  me  mere  matter  of  the  fancy 
now  has  grown  the  vast  necessity  of  heart  and  life. 
—  Tennyson. 

Neglect.  —  He  that  thinks  he  can  afford  to  be 
negligent  is  not  far  from  being  poor.  —  Johnson. 

News.  —  Give  to  a  gracious  message  an  host  of 
tongues;  but  let  ill  tidings  tell  themselves  when 
they  be  felt.  —  Shakespeare. 

Newspapers.  —  In  these  times  we  fight  for 
ideas,  and  newspapers  are  our  fortresses. — Hein- 
rich  Heine. 

Before  this  century  shall  run  out  journalism  will 
be  the  whole  press.  Mankind  will  write  their  book 
day  by  day,  hour  by  hour,  page  by  page.  Thought 
will  spread  abroad  with  the  rapidity  of  light;  in- 
stantly conceived,  instantly  written,  instantly  under- 
stood at  the  extremities  of  the  earth;  it  will  spread 
from  Pole  to  Pole,  suddenly  burning  with  the  fervor 
of  soul  which  made  it  burst  forth;  it  will  be  the 
reign  of  the  human  mind  in  all  its  plenitude;  it  will 
not  have  time  to  ripen,  to  accumulate  in  the  form  of 
a  book;  the  book  will  arrive  too  late;  the  only  book 
possible  from  day  to  day  is  a  newspaper.  —  Lamar- 
tine. 

Four  hostile  newspapers  are  more  to  be  feared 
than  a  thousand  bayonets.  —  Napoleon. 

They  preach  to  the  people  daily,  weekly;  admon- 
ishing kings  themselves;  advising  peace  or  war  with 
an  authority  which  only  the  first  Keformers  and  a 
long-past  class  of  Popes  were  possessed  of;  inflict- 
ing moral  censure ;  imparting  moral  encouragement, 
consolation,  edification;  in  all  ways  diligently  "  ad- 
ministering the  discipline  of  the  Church."  It  may 
be  said,  too,  that  in  private  disposition  the  new 
preachers  somewhat  resemble  the  mendicant  Friars 
of  old  times  ;  outwardly,  full  of  holy  zeal;  inwardly, 
not  without  stratagem,  and  hunger  for  terrestrial 
things.  —  Carlyle. 


NEW  185  NOV 

These  papers  of  the  day  have  uses  more  adequate 
to  the  purposes  of  common  life  than  more  pompous 
and  durable  volumes.  —  Johnson. 

Night.  —  Wisdom  mounts  her  zenith  with  the 
stars.  —  Mrs.  Barhauld. 

The  day  is  done,  and  the  darkness  falls  from  the 
•wings  of  night.  —  Longfellow. 

Sable-vested  night,  eldest  of  things.  —  Milton. 

O  mysterious  night!  Thou  art  not  silent:  many 
tongues  hast  thou.  —  Joanna  Baillie. 

Night,  when  deep  sleep  falleth  on  men.  —  Bible. 

No.  —  No  is  a  surly,  honest  fellow,  speaks  his 
mind  rough  and  round  at  once.  —  Walter  Scott. 

Learn  to  say  No!  and  it  will  be  of  more  use  to 
you  than  to  be  able  to  read  Latin.  —  Spurgeon. 

The  woman  who  really  wishes  to  refuse  contents 
herself  with  saying  No.  She  who  explains  wants  to 
be  convinced.  —  Alfred  de  Mussel. 

Nobility.  —  Virtue  is  the  first  title  of  no- 
bility. —  Molilre. 

Nonsense.  —  Nonsense  is  to  sense  as  shade 
to  light  —  it  heightens  effect.  —  Fred.  Saunders. 

Nothing.  —  There  is  nothing  useless  to  men 
of  sense  ;  clever  people  turn  everything  to  account. 

—  Fontaine. 

Variety  of  mere  nothings  gives  more  pleasure 
than  uniformity  of  something.  —  Richter. 

Novels.  —  Novels  are  sweet.  All  people  with 
healthy  literary  appetites  love  them  —  almost  all 
women  ;  a  vast  number  of  clever,  hard-headed  men, 

—  Judges,  bishops,  chancellors,  mathematicians, — 
are  notorious  novel  readers,  as  well  as  young  boys 
and  sweet  girls,  and  their  kind,  tender  mothers.  — 
Thackeray. 


NOV  186  OBL 

We  must  have  books  for  recreation  and  enter- 
tainment, as  well  as  books  for  instruction  and  for 
business;  the  former  are  agreeable,  the  latter  use- 
ful, and  the  human  mind  requires  both.  The  canon 
law  and  the  codes  of  Justinian  shall  have  due 
honor  and  reign  at  the  universities,  but  Homer  and 
Virgil  need  not  therefore  be  banished.  We  will 
cultivate  the  olive  and  the  vine,  but  without  eradi- 
cating the  myrtle  and  the  rose.  —  Balzac. 

A  little  grain  of  the  romance  is  no  ill  ingredient 
to  preserve  and  exalt  the  dignity  of  human  nature, 
without  which  it  is  apt  to  degenerate  into  every- 
thing that  is  sordid,  vicious,  and  low.  —  Swift. 

Novelty.  —  The  enormous  influence  of  nov- 
elty—  the  way  in  which  it  quickens  observation, 
sharpens  sensation,  and  exalts  sentiment  —  is  not 
half  enough  taken  note  of  by  us,  and  is  to  me  a 
very  sorrowful  matter.  And  yet,  if  we  try  to  obtain 
perpetual  change,  change  itself  will  become  monoto- 
nous; and  then  we  are  reduced  to  that  old  despair, 
"  If  water  chokes,  what  will  you  drink  after  it  V  " 
The  two  points  of  practical  wisdom  in  the  matter 
are,  first,  to  be  content  with  as  little  novelty  as 
possible  at  a  time  ;  and  secondly,  to  preserve,  as 
as  much  possible,  the  sources  of  novelty.  — Ruskin. 

Novelty  is  the  great-parent  of  pleasure.  —  South. 


o. 

Obedience.  —  To  obey  is  better  than  sacri- 
fice. —  Bible. 

How  will  you  find  good?  It  is  not  a  thing  of 
choice,  it  is  a  river  that  flows  from  the  foot  of  the 
Invisible  Throne,  and  flows  by  the  path  of  obedi- 
ence. —  George  Eliot. 

Oblivion.  —  Oblivion  is  the  flower  that  grows 
best  on  graves.  —  George  Sand. 

The  grave  of  human  misery.  —  Alfred  de  Musset. 


OBS  187  OPI 

Observation.  —  It  is  the  close  observation 
of  little  things  which  is  the  secret  of  success  in  busi- 
ness, in  art,  in  science,  and  in  every  pursuit  in  life. 
Human  knowledge  is  but  an  accumulation  of  small 
facts,  made  by  successive  generations  of  men,  — the 
little  bits  of  knowledge  and  experience  carefully 
treasured  up  by  them  growing  at  length  into  a 
mighty  pyramid.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

Observation  made  in  the  cloister,  or  in  the  desert, 
will  generally  be  as  obscure  as  the  one,  and  as  barren 
as  the  other;  but  he  that  would  paint  with  his  pen- 
cil must  study  originals,  and  not  be  over  fearful  of 
a  little  dust.  —  Collon. 

Each  one  sees  what  he  carries  in  his  heart. — 

Goethe. 

Occupation.  —  The  want  of  occupation  is 
no  less  the  plague  of  society  than  of  solitude.  — 
Bousseau. 

The  busy  have  no  time  for  tears.  —  Byron. 

One  of  the  principal  occupations  of  man  is  to  di- 
vine woman.  —  Lacretelle. 

Ocean.  —  Wave  rolling  after  wave  in  torrent 
rapture.  —  Milton. 

It  plays  with  the  clouds,  it  mocks  the  skies,  or  like 
a  cradled  creature  lies.  —  Barry  Cornwall. 

The  visitation  of  the  winds,  who  take  the  ruffian 
billows  by  the  top,  curling  their  monstrous  heads.  — 
Shakespeare. 

Office.  —  The  gratitude  of  place-expectants  is 
a  Uvely  sense  of  future  favors.  —  Walpole. 

Opinion.  —  The  men  of  the  past  had  convic- 
tions, while  we  moderns  have  only  opinions.  —  Hein- 
rich  Heine. 

Wind  puffs  up  empty  bladders;  opinion,  fools.  — 

Socrates. 


OPI  188  OPP 

Our  pet  opinions  are  usually  tliose  which  place  us 
in  a  minority  of  a  minority  amongst  our  own  party: 
very  happily,  else  those  poor  opinions,  born  with 
no  silver  spoon  in  their  mouths,  how  would  they 
get  nourished  and  fed  V  —  George  Eliot, 

Those  who  never  retract  their  opinions  love  them- 
selves more  than  they  love  truth.  —  Jouhert. 

It  has  been  shrewdly  said  that  when  men  abuse 
ns,  we  should  suspect  ourselves,  and  when  they 
praise  us,  them.  It  is  a  rare  instance  of  virtue  to 
despise  censure  which  we  do  not  deserve,  and  still 
more  rare  to  despise  praise,  which  we  do.  But 
that  integrity  that  lives  only  on  opinion  would 
starve  without  it.  —  Colton. 

There  never  was  in  the  world  two  opinions  alike, 
no  more  than  two  hairs  or  two  grains.  The  most 
universal  quality  is  diversity.  —  Montaigne. 

The  history  of  human  opinion  is  scarcely  anything 
more  than  the  history  of  human  errors.  —  Voltaire. 

If  a  man  should  register  all  his  opinions  upon  love, 
politics,  religion,  learning,  etc.,  beginning  from  his 
youth,  and  so  go  on  to  old  age,  what  a  bundle  of 
inconsistencies  and  contradictions  would  appear  at 
last.  —  Swift, 

One  of  the  mistakes  in  the  conduct  of  human  life 
is,  to  suppose  that  other  men's  opinions  are  to  make 
us  happy.  —  Burton, 

It  is  with  true  opinions  which  one  has  the  courage 
to  utter  as  with  pawns  first  advanced  on  the  chess- 
board; they  may  be  beaten,  but  they  have  inaugur- 
ated a  game  which  must  be  won.  —  Goethe. 

The  feeble  tremble  before  opinion,  the  foolish 
defy  it,  the  wise  judge  it,  the  skillful  direct  it.  — 
Mme,  Roland. 

Opportunity.  —  The  cleverest  of  all  devils 
is  opportunity.  —  Vieland. 

Chance  opportunities  make  us  known  to  others, 
and  still  more  to  ourselves.  —  Rochefoucauld. 


OPP  389  ORA 

What  is  opportunity  to  the  man  who  can't  use  it? 
An  unfecundated  egg,  which  the  waves  of  time  wash 
away  into  nonentity.  —  George  Eliot. 

There  is  no  man  whom  Fortune  does  not  visit 
once  in  his  life;  but  when  she  does  not  find  him 
ready  to  receive  her,  she  walks  in  at  the  door  and 
flies  out  at  the  window.  —  Cardinal  Imperiali. 

The  golden  moments  in  the  stream  of  life  rush 
past  us,  and  we  see  nothing  but  sand;  the  angels 
come  to  visit  us,  and  we  only  know  them  when  they 
are  gone.  —  George  Eliot. 

Every  one  has  a  fair  turn  to  be  as  great  as  he 
pleases.  —  Jeremy  Collier. 

A  philosopher  being  asked  what  was  the  first 
thing  necessary  to  win  the  love  of  a  woman,  an- 
swered :  "  Opportunity."  — Moore. 

Opportunity,  sooner  or  later,  comes  to  all  who 
work  and  wish.  — Lord  Stanley. 

You  will  never  "  find  "  time  for  anything.  If  you 
want  time  you  must  make  it.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Opposition.  —  The  effects  of  opposition  are 
wonderful.  There  are  men  who  rise  refreshed  on 
hearing  of  a  threat,  —  men  to  whom  a  crisis  which 
intimidates  and  paralyzes  the  majority  —  demand- 
ing, not  the  faculties  of  prudence  and  thrift,  but 
comprehension,  immovableness,  the  readiness  of  sac- 
rifice —  comes  graceful  and  beloved  as  a  bride !  — 
Emerson. 

Nobody  loves  heartily  unless  people  take  pains  to 
prevent  it.  —  Buliver-Lytton. 

Oratory.  —  Orators  are  most  vehement  when 
they  have  the  weakest  cause,  as  men  get  on  horse- 
back when  they  cannot  walk.  —  Cicero. 

Metaphor  is  the  figure  most  suitable  for  the  orator, 
as  men  find  a  positive  pleasure  in  catching  resem- 
blances for  themselves.  — Aristotle. 


OR  A  190  OKI 

Those  orators  who  give  us  much  noise  and  many 
words,  but  little  argument  and  less  wit,  and  who  are 
most  loud  when  they  are  least  lucid,  should  take  a 
lesson  from  the  great  volume  of  Nature;  she  often 
gives  us  the  lightning  even  without  the  thunder,  but 
never  the  thunder  without  the  lightning.  —  Colton. 

An  orator  without  judgment  is  a  horse  without  a 
bridle.  —  Theophrastus. 

When  the  Roman  people  had  listened  to  the  dif- 
fuse and  polished  discourses  of  Cicero,  they  departed, 
saying  one  to  another,  "What  a  splendid  speech 
our  orator  has  made!"  But  when  the  Athenians 
heard  Demosthenes,  he  so  filled  them  with  the  sub- 
ject-matter of  his  oration,  that  they  quite  forgot  the 
orator,  and  left  him  at  the  finish  of  his  harangue, 
breathing  revenge,  and  exclaiming,  "  Let  us  go  and 
fight  against  Philip!  "  —  Colton. 

Let  not  a  day  pass  without  exercising  your  powers 
of  speech.  There  is  no  power  like  that  of  oratory. 
Caesar  controlled  men  by  exciting  their  fears;  Cicero, 
by  captivating  their  affections  and  swaying  their 
passions.  The  influence  of  the  one  perished  with 
its  author;  that  of  the  other  continues  to  this  day. 
—  Henry  Clay. 

It  was  reckoned  the  fault  of  the  orators  at  the  de- 
cline of  the  Roman  empire,  when  they  had  been 
long  instructed  by  rhetoricians,  that  their  periods 
were  so  harmonious  as  that  they  could  be  sung  as 
well  as  spoken.  What  a  ridiculous  figure  must  one 
of  these  gentlemen  cut,  thus  measuring  syllables  and 
weighing  words  when  he  should  plead  the  cause  of 
his  client!  —  Goldamith. 

Originality.  —  Originality  is  nothing  but  ju- 
dicious imitation.  —  Voltaire. 

One  could  n't  carry  on  life  comfortably  without  a 
little  blindness  to  the  fact  that  everything  has  been 
said  better  than  we  can  put  it  ourselves.  —  George 
Eliot. 


ORI  191  PAR 

The  most  original  writers  borrowed  one  from 
another.  Boiardo  has  imitated  Pulci,  and  Ariosto 
Boianlo.  Tlie  instruction  we  find  in  books  is  Hke 
fire.  We  fetch  it  from  our  neighbor's,  kindle  it  at 
home,  communicate  it  to  others,  and  it  becomes  the 
property  of  all.  —  Voltaire. 

All  originality  is  estrangement.  —  G.  H.  Lawes. 


Pain.  —  Psychical  pain  is  more  easily  borne  than 
physical,  and  if  I  had  my  choice  between  a  bad  con- 
science and  a  bad  tooth,  I  should  choose  the  former. 
—  Heinrich  Heine. 

The  same  refinement  which  brings  us  new  pleas- 
ures exposes  us  to  new  pains.  —  Buliuer-Lytton. 

Pardon.  —  Pardon  is  the  virtue  of  victory.  — 

Mazzini. 

The  heart  has  always  the  pardoning  power. — 
Madame  Swetchine. 

The  offender  never  pardons.  —  George  Herbert. 

Love  is  on  the  verge  of  hate  each  time  it  stoops 
for  pardon.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

These  evils  I  deserve,  yet  despair  not  of  his  final 
pardon  whose  ear  is  ever  open,  and  his  eye  gracious 
to  readmit  the  supplicant. — Milton. 

Having  mourned  your  sin,  for  outward  Eden  lost, 
find  paradise  within.  —  Dryden. 

Parent.  —  The  sacred  books  of  the  ancient  Per- 
sians say  :  If  you  would  be  holy  instruct  your  chil- 
dren, because  all  the  good  acts  they  perform  will  be 
imputed  to  you.  —  Montesquieu. 

Partiality.  —  Partiality  in  a  parent  is  commonly 
unlucky;  for  fondlings  are  in  danger  to  be  made  fools, 
and  the  children  that  are  least  cockered  make  the 
best  and  wisest  men.  —  U Estrange. 


PAR  192  PAS 

As  there  is  a  partiality  to  opinions,  which  is  apt 
to  mislead  the  understanding,  so  there  is  also  a  par- 
tiality to  studies,  which  is  prejudicial  to  knowledge. 

—  Locke. 

Partiality  is  properly  the  understanding's  judging 
according  to  the  inclination  of  the  will  and  affections, 
and  not  according  to  the  exact  truth  of  things,  or  the 
merits  of  the  cause.  —  South. 

Parting.  — In  every  parting  there  is  an  image 
of  death.  —  George  Eliot. 

Party  .  —  He  knows  very  little  of  mankind  who 
expects,  by  any  facts  or  reasoning,  to  convince  a  de- 
termined party-man.  —  Lavater. 

He  that  aspires  to  be  the  head  of  a  party  will  find 
it  more  difficult  to  please  his  friends  than  to  perplex 
his  foes.  —  Cotton. 

Passions.  —  Passions  makes  us  feel  but  never 
see  clearly.  —  Montesquieu. 

Passions  are  likened  best  to  floods  and  streams : 
the  shallow  murmur,  but  the  deep  are  dumb.  —  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh. 

The  passions  are  the  voice  of  the  body.  —  RouS' 
seau. 

The  advice  given  by  a  great  moralist  to  his  friend 
was,  that  he  should  compose  his  passions;  and  let 
that  be  the  work  of  reason  which  would  certainly  be 
the  work  of  time.  —  Addison. 

A  vigorous  mind  is  as  necessarily  accompanied 
with  violent  passions  as  a  great  fire  with  great  heat. 

—  Burke. 

There  are  moments  when  our  passions  speak  and 
decide  for  us,  and  we  seem  to  stand  by  and  wonder. 
They  carry  in  them  an  inspiration  of  crime,  that  in 
one  instant  does  the  work  of  long  premeditation.  — 
George  Eliot. 


PAS  193  PAT 

The  blossoms  of  passion,  gay  and  luxuriant  flow- 
ers, are  brighter  and  fuller  of  fragrance,  but  they 
beguile  us  and  lead  us  astray,  and  their  odor  is 
deadly.  — Longfellow. 

"  All  the  passions,"  says  an  old  writer,  "  are  such 
near  neighbors,  that  if  one  of  them  is  on  fire  the 
others  should  send  for  the  buckets."  Thus  love 
and  hate  being  both  passions,  the  one  is  never  safe 
from  the  spark  that  sets  the  other  ablaze.  But  con- 
tempt is  passionless ;  it  does  not  catch,  it  quenches 
fire.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

All  the  passions  seek  after  whatever  nourishes 
them.     Fear  loves  the  idea  of  danger.  —  Joubert. 

It  is  the  excess  and  not  the  nature  of  our  passions 
which  is  perishable.  Like  the  trees  which  grow  by 
the  tomb  of  Protesilaus,  the  passions  flourish  till  they 
reach  a  certain  height,  but  no  sooner  is  that  height 
attained  than  they  wither  away.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Past.  —  Let  the  dead  past  bury  its  dead.  — 
Longfellow. 

Oh  vanished  times!  splendors  eclipsed  for  aye! 
Oh  suns  behind  the  horizon  that  have  set.  —  Victor 
Hugo. 

It  is  to  live  twice,  when  we  can  enjoy  the  recol- 
lections of  our  former  life.  —  Martial. 

I  desire  no  future  that  will  break  the  ties  of  the 
past.  —  George  Eliot. 

Patience.  —  There  is  one  form  of  hope  which 
is  never  unwise,  and  which  certainly  does  not  dimin- 
ish with  the  increase  of  knowledge.  In  that  form  it 
changes  its  name  and  we  call  it  patience.  —  Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

It 's  easy  finding  reasons  why  other  folks  should  be 
patient.  —  George  Eliot. 

Patience,  sovereign  o'er  transmuted  ills. — John- 
son. 

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PAT  194  PAT 

There  's  no  music  in  a  '*  rest,"  that  I  know  of, 
but  there  's  the  making  of  music  in  it.  And  people 
are  always  missing  that  part  of  the  life  melody,  al- 
ways talking  of  perseverance,  and  courage,  and  forti- 
tude; but  patience  is  the  finest  and  worthiest  part  of 
fortitude,  and  the  rarest,  too.  —  Ruskin. 

The  two  powers  which  in  my  opinion  constitute 
a  wise  man  are  those  of  bearing  and  forbearing.  — 
Epictetus. 

Enter  into  the  sublime  patience  of  the  Lord.  Be 
charitable  in  view  of  it.  God  can  afford  to  wait; 
why  cannot  we,  since  we  have  Him  to  fall  back  upon  ? 
Let  patience  have  her  perfect  work,  and  bring  forth 
her  celestial  fruits.  —  G.  MacDonald. 

'Tis  all  men's  office  to  speak  patience  to  those 
that  wring  under  the  load  of  sorrow ;  but  no  man's 
virtue  nor  sufficiency  to  be  so  moral  when  he  shall 
endure  the  like  himself.  —  Shakespeare. 

He  that  hath  patience  hath  fat  thrushes  for  a 
farthing.  —  George  Herbert. 

Imitate  time.  It  destroys  slowly.  It  undermines, 
wears,  loosens,  separates.  It  does  not  uproot.  — Jou- 
hert. 

God  is  with  the  patient.  —  Koran. 

Patience,  the  second  bravery  of  man,  is,  perhaps, 
greater  than  the  first.  —  Antonio  de  Solis. 

Patience  —  the  truest  fortitude.  —  Milton. 

Patriotism.  —  In  peace  patriotism  really  con- 
sists only  in  this  —  that  every  one  sweeps  before  his 
own  door,  minds  his  own  business,  also  learns  his 
own  lesson,  that  it  may  be  well  with  him  in  his  own 
house.  —  Goethe. 

Our  country  !  In  her  intercourse  with  foreign 
nations  may  she  always  be  in  the  right  ;  but  ou^ 
country,  right  or  wrong.  — Decatur. 

How  dear  is  fatherland  to  all  noble  hearts.  —  VoU 
taire. 


PAT  195  FED 

Let  our  object  be  our  country,  our  whole  country, 
and  nothing  but  our  country.  And,  by  the  blessing 
of  God,  may  that  country  itself  become  a  vast  and 
splendid  monument,  not  of  oppression  and  terror, 
but  of  wisdom,  of  peace,  and  of  liberty,  upon  which 
the  world  may  gaze  with  admiration  forever !  — 
Daniel  Webster. 

There  can  be  no  affinity  nearer  than  our  country. 
—  Plato. 

Of  the  whole  sum  of  human  life  no  small  part  is 
that  which  consists  of  a  man's  relations  to  his  coun- 
try, and  his  feeUngs  concerning  it.  —  Gladstone. 

Peace.  —  They  shall  beat  their  swords  into 
plowshares,  and  their  spears  into  pruning-hooks ; 
nation  shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation,  neither 
shall  they  learn  war  any  more.  —  Bible. 

Still  in  thy  right  hand  carry  gentle  peace.  — 
Shakespeare. 

Lovely  concord  and  most  sacred  peace  doth  nour- 
ish virtue,  and  fast  friendship  breed.  —  Spenser. 

Peace  gives  food  to  the  husbandman,  even  in  the 
midst  of  rocks  ;  war  brings  misery  to  him,  even  in 
the  most  fertile  plains.  —  Menander. 

Peace,  dear  nurse  of  arts,  plenties,  and  joyful 
birth.  —  Shakespeare. 

A  land  rejoicing  and  a  people  blest.  —  Pope. 

Pedant.  —  As  pedantry  is  an  ostentatious  ob- 
trusion of  knowledge,  in  which  those  who  hear  us 
cannot  sympathize,  it  is  a  fault  of  which  soldiers, 
sailors,  sportsmen,  gamesters,  cultivators,  and  all 
men  engaged  in  a  particular  occupation,  are  quite  as 
guilty  as  scholars;  but  they  have  the  good  fortune  to 
have  the  vice  only  of  pedantry,  while  scholars  have 
both  the  vice  and  the  name  for  it  too.  —  S.  Smith. 

With  loads  of  learned  lumber  in  his  head.  — Pope. 


PED  196  PER 

It  is  not  a  circumscribed  situation  so  much  as  a 
narrow  vision  that  creates  pedants  ;  not  having  a  pet 
study  or  science,  but  a  narrow,  vulgar  soul,  which 
prevents  a  man  from  seeing  all  sides  and  hearin<r 
all  things;  in  short,  the  intolerant  man  is  the  real 
pedant.  —  Richie)-. 

Perfection.  —  It  is  reasonable  to  have  per- 
fection in  our  eye  that  we  may  always  advance  tow- 
ards it,  though  we  know  it  can  never  be  reached.  — 
Johnson. 

Perfection  does  not  exist;  to  understand  it  is  the 
triumph  of  human  intelligence;  to  desire  to  possess 
it  is  the  most  dangerous  kind  of  madness.  —  Alfred 
de  Musset. 

That  historian  who  would  describe  a  favorite  char- 
acter as  faultless  raises  another  at  the  expense  of 
himself.  Zeuxis  made  five  virgins  contribute  their 
charms  to  his  single  picture  of  llelen;  and  it  is  as 
vain  for  the  moralist  to  look  for  perfection  in  the 
mind,  as  for  the  painter  to  expect  to  find  it  in  the 
body.  —  Colton. 

Trifles  make  perfection,  but  perfection  is  no  trifle. 

—  Michael  Angela. 

He  who  boasts  of  being  perfect  is  perfect  in  folly. 
I  never  saw  a  perfect  man.  Every  rose  has  its 
thorns,  and  every  day  its  ni^ht.  Even  the  sun  shows 
spots,  and  the  skies  are  darkened  with  clouds.  And 
faults  of  some  kind  nestle  in  every  bosom.  —  Spur- 
geon. 

Faultily  faultless,  icily  regular,  splendidly  null, 
dead  perfection ;  no  more.  —  Tennyson. 

Persecution.  —  Of  all  persecutions,  that  of 
calumny  is  the  most  intolerable.  Any  other  kind  of 
persecution  can  affect  our  outward  circumstances 
only,  our  properties,  our  lives;  but  this  may  affect 
our  characters  forever.  —  Haditt. 


PER  197  I^I 

Perseverance.  —  Great  effects  come  of  in- 
dustry and  perseverance;  for  audacity  doth  almost 
bind  and  mate  the  weaker  sort  of  minds.  —  Bacon. 

Let  us  only  suffer  any  person  to  tell  us  his  story, 
morning  and  evening,  but  for  one  twelve-month,  and 
he  will  become  our  master.  —  Burke. 

Perpetual  pushing  and  assurance  put  a  difficulty 
out  of  countenance,  and  make  a  seeming  impossibility 
give  way.  —  Jeremy  Collier. 

Much  rain  wears  the  marble.  —  Shakespeare. 

I  'm  proof  against  that  word  failure.  I  've  seen 
behind  it.  The  only  failure  a  man  ought  to  fear  is 
failure  in  cleaving  to  the  purpose  he  sees  to  be  best. 

—  George  Eliot. 

Every  man  who  observes  vigilantly,  and  resolves 
steadfastly,  grows  unconsciously  into  genius.  —  Bul- 
wer-Lytton. 

Perseverance  is  not  always  an  indication  of  great 
abilities.  An  indifferent  poet  is  invulnerable  to  a 
repulse,  the  want  of  sensibility  in  him  b  ing  what  a 
noble  self-confidence  was  in  Milton.  These  excluded 
suitors  continue,  nevertheless,  to  hang  their  garlands 
at  the  gate,  to  anoint  the  door-post,  and  even  kiss 
the  very  threshold  of  her  home,  though  the  Muse 
beckons  them  not  in.  —  Wordsworth. 

Perverseness.  —  Tlie  strength  of  the  donkey 
mind  lies  in  adopting  a  course  inversely  as  the  argu- 
ments urged,  which,  well  considered,  requires  as 
great  a  mental  force  as  the  direct  sequence.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Philosophy.  —  Philosophy  is  the  art  of  living. 

—  Plutarch. 

Philosophy  consists  not  in  airy  schemes,  or  idle 
speculations;  the  rule  and  conduct  of  all  social  life  is 
her  great  province.  —  Thomson. 

The  philosopher  knows  the  universe  and  knows 
not  himself.  —  Fontaine. 


PHI  198  PIE 

Philosophy  is  the  rational  expression  of  genius,  — 
Lamartine. 

It  is  a  maxim  received  among  philosophers  them- 
selves from  the  days  of  Aristotle  down  to  those  of 
Sir  William  Hamilton,  that  philosophy  ceases  where 
truth  is  acknowledged.  —  Bulwer-Lytion. 

Physiognomy.  —  It  is  a  point  of  cunning  to 
wait  upon  him  with  whom  you  speak  with  your  eye, 
as  the  Jesuits  give  it  in  precept;  for  there  be  many 
wise  men  that  have  secret  hearts  and  transparent 
countenances.  —  Bacon. 

As  the  language  of  the  face  is  universal,  so  'tis 
very  comprehensive;  no  laconism  can  reach  it;  'tis 
the  short-hand  of  the  mind,  and  crowds  a  great  deal 
in  a  little  room.  —  Jeremy  Collier. 

The  distinguishing  characters  of  the  face,  and  the 
lineaments  of  the  body,  grow  more  plain  and  visible 
with  time  and  age;  but  the  peculiar  physiognomy  of 
the  mind  is  most  discernible  in  children.  —  Locke. 

What  knowledge  is  there,  of  which  man  is  capable, 
that  is  not  founded  on  the  exterior ;  the  relation  that 
exists  between  visible  and  invisible,  the  perceptible 
and  the  imperceptible  V  —  Lavater. 

Piety.  —  Among  the  many  strange  servilities 
mistaken  for  pieties  one  of  the  least  lovely  is  that 
which  hopes  to  flatter  God  by  despising  the  world 
and  vilifying  human  nature.  —  G.  H.  Lewes. 

Piety  softens  all  that  courage  bears.  —  Madame 
Swetchine. 

Piety  is  a  kind  of  modesty.  It  makes  us  turn 
aside  our  thoughts,  as  modesty  makes  us  cast  down 
our  eyes  in  the  presence  of  whatever  is  forbidden. 
—  Joubert, 

Piety  is  not  an  end,  but  a  means  of  attaining  the 
highest  degree  of  culture  by  perfect  peace  of  mind. 
Hence  it  is  to  be  observed  that  those  who  make  piety 
an  end  and  aim  in  itself  for  the  most  part  become 
hypocrites.  —  Goethe. 


PIT  199  PLA 

Pity.  —  Pity  is  not  natural  to  man.  Children 
are  always  cruel.  Savages  are  always  cruel.  Pity 
is  acquired  and  improved  by  the  cultivation  of  rea- 
son. We  may  have  uneasy  sensations  from  seeing 
a  creature  in  distress,  without  pity  ;  for  we  have  not 
pity  unless  we  wish  to  relieve  them.  When  I  am  on 
my  way  to  dine  with  a  friend,  and,  finding  it  late, 
bid  the  coachman  make  haste,  if  I  happen  to  attend 
when  he  whips  his  horses,  I  may  feel  unpleasantly 
that  the  animals  are  put  to  pain,  but  I  do  not  wish 
him  to  desist ;  no,  sir,  I  wish  him  to  drive  on.  — 
Johnson. 

Pity  is  sworn  servant  unto  love,  and  this  be  sure, 
wherever  it  begin  to  make  the  way,  it  lets  the  mas- 
ter in.  —  Daniel. 

Those  many  that  need  pity,  and  those  infinities  of 
people  that  refuse  to  pity,  are  miserable  upon  a  sev- 
eral charge,  but  yet  they  almost  make  up  all  man- 
kind. —  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Of  all  the  sisters  of  Love  one  of  the  most  charming 
is  Pity.  —  Alfred  de  Musset. 

Place.  —  In  place  there  is  a  license  to  do  good 
and  evil,  whereof  the  latter  is  a  curse;  for  in  evil  the 
best  condition  is  not  to  will;  the  second,  not  to  can. 
—  Lord  Bacon. 

Where  you  are  is  of  no  moment,  but  only  what 
you  are  doing  there.  It  is  not  the  place  that  enno- 
bles you,  but  you  the  place  ;  and  this  only  by  doing 
that  which  is  great  and  noble.  —  Petrarch. 

I  take  sanctuary  in  an  honest  mediocrity.  — 
Bruyere. 

A  true  man  never  frets  about  his  place  in  the 
world,  but  just  slides  into  it  by  the  gravitation  of 
his  nature,  and  swings  there  as  easily  as  a  star. — 
Chapin. 


PLA  200  PLE 

Plagiarism.  —  Nothing  is  sillier  than  this 
charge  of  plagiarism.  There  is  no  sixth  commandment 
in  art.   The  poet  dare  help  himself  wherever  he  lists 

—  wherever  he  finds  material  suited  to  his  work. 
He  may  even  appropriate  entire  columns  with  their 
carved  capitals,  if  the  temple  he  thus  supports  be  a 
beautiful  one.  Goethe  understood  this  very  well, 
and  so  did  Shakespeare  before  him.  —  Heinrich 
Heine. 

Pleasure.  —  Consider  pleasures  as  they  depart, 
not  as  they  come.  —  Aristotle. 

We  have  not  an  hour  of  life  in  which  our  pleas- 
ures relish  not  some  pain,  our  sours  some  sweetness. 

—  Massinger. 

How  many  there  are  that  take  pleasure  in  toil: 
that  can  outrise  the  sun,  outwatch  the  moon,  and 
outrun  the  field's  wild  beasts!  merely  out  of  fancy 
and  delectation,  they  can  find  out  mirth  in  vocifera- 
tion, music  in  the  barking  of  dogs,  and  be  content 
to  be  led  about  the  earth,  over  hedges  and  through 
slouo-hs,  by  the  windings  and  the  shifts  of  poor  af- 
frighted vermin;  yet,  after  all,  come  off,  as  Messa- 
lina,  tired,  and  not  satisfied  with  all  that  the  brutes 
can  do.  But  were  a  man  enjoined  to  this  that  did 
not  like  it,  how  tedious  and  how  punishable  to  him 
would  it  prove!  since,  in  itself,  it  differs  not  from 
riding  post.  —  Feltham. 

Boys  immature  in  knowledge  pawn  their  experi- 
ence to  their  present  pleasure.  —  Shakespeare. 

'Tis  a  wrong  way  to  proportion  other  men's  pleas- 
ures to  ourselves.  'Tis  like  a  child's  using  a  little 
bird  —  "  Oh,  poor  bird,  thou  shalt  sleep  with  me  " 

—  so  lays  it  in  his  bosom  and  stifles  it  with  his  hot 
breath.  The  bird  had  rather  be  in  the  cold  air. 
And  yet,  too,  'tis  the  most  pleasing  flattery  to  like 
what  other  men  like.  —  Selden. 

There  is  no  pleasure  but  that  some  pain  is  nearly 
allied  to  it.  —  Menander. 


PLE  201  ^  FOE 

All  fits  of  pleasure  are  balanced  by  an  equal  de- 
gree of  pain  or  languor;  't  is  like  spending  this  year 
part  of  the  next  year's  revenue.  —  Swift. 

Fly  the  pleasure  that  bites  to-morrow.  —  George 
Herbert. 

Look  upon  pleasures  not  upon  that  side  that  is 
next  the  sun,  or  where  they  look  beauteously,  that 
is,  as  they  come  towards  you  to  be  enjoyed,  for  then 
they  paint  and  smile,  and  dress  themselves  up  in 
tinsel,  and  glass  gems,  and  counterfeit  imagery.  — 
Jeremy  Taylor. 

Pleasure  has  its  time;  so,  too,  has  wisdom.  Make 
love  in  thy  youth,  and  in  old  age  attend  to  thy  sal- 
vation. —  Voltaire. 

A  man  of  pleasure  is  a  man  of  pains.  —  Young. 

Pleasure  is  very  seldom  found  where  it  is  sought. 
Our  brightest  blazes  of  gladness  are  commonly  kin- 
dled by  unexpected  sparks.  — Johnson. 

What  would  we  not  give  to  still  have  in  store  the 
first  blissful  moment  we  ever  enjoyed!  — Rochepedre. 

Most  pleasures  embrace  us  but  to  strangle. — 
Montaigne. 

Poetry.  —  Poetry  is  the  apotheosis  of  sentiment. 

—  Madame  de  Stael. 

Poetry  is  the  sister  of  sorrow.  Every  man  that 
suffers  and  weeps  is  a  poet;  every  tear  is  a  verse, 
and  every  heart  a  poem.  —  Maix  Andre. 

Much  is  the  force  of  heaven-bred  poesy.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Poetry,  good  sir,  in  my  opinion,  is  like  a  tender 
virgin,  very  young,  and  extremely  beautiful,  whom 
divers  other  virgins  —  namely,  all  the  other  sciences 

—  make  it  their  business  to  enrich,  polish, and  adorn; 
and  to  her  it  belongs  to  make  use  of  them  all,  and 
on  her  part  to  give  a  lustre  to  them  all.  —  Cervantes. 

Poetry  is  the  overflowing  of  the  soul.  —  Tucker' 
man. 


POE  202  POE 

Poetry  is  enthusiasm  with  wings  of  fire,  it  is  the 
angel  of  high  thoughts,  that  inspires  us  with  the 
power  of  sacrifice.  —  Mazzini. 

Poetry  is  the  music  of  thought,  conveyed  to  us  in 
the  music  of  language.  —  Chatjfield. 

The  great  secret  of  morals  is  love,  or  a  going  out 
of  our  own  nature,  and  an  identification  of  ourselves 
with  the  beautiful  which  exists  in  thought,  action, 
or  person,  not  our  own.  A  man,  to  be  greatly  good, 
must  imagine  intensely  and  comprehensively;  he 
must  put  himself  in  the  place  of  another,  and  of 
many  others;  the  pains  and  pleasures  of  his  species 
must  become  his  own.  The  great  instrument  of 
moral  good  is  imagination,  and  poetry  administers 
to  the  effect  by  acting  upon  the  cause.  —  Shelley. 

Truth  shines  the  brighter  clad  in  verse.  —  Pope. 

It  is  a  shallow  criticism  that  would  define  poetry 
as  confined  to  literary  productions  in  rhyme  and 
metre.  The  written  poem  is  only  poetry  talking,  and 
the  statue,  the  picture,  and  the  musical  composition 
are  poetry  acting.  Milton  and  Goethe,  at  their 
desks,  were  not  more  truly  poets  than  Phidias  with 
his  chisel,  Raphael  at  his  easel,  or  deaf  Beethoven 
bending  over  his  piano,  inventing  and  producing 
strains  which  he  himself  could  never  hope  to  hear.  — 
Ruskin. 

Thought  in  blossom.  —  Bishop  Ken. 

It  is  a  ruinous  misjudgment,  too  contemptible  to 
be  asserted,  but  not  too  contemptible  to  be  acted 
upon,  that  the  end  of  poetry  is  publication. —  George 
MacDonald. 

Wisdom  married  to  immortal  verse.  —  Words- 
worth. 

By  poetry  we  mean  the  art  of  employing  words  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  produce  an  illusion  on  the  im- 
agination; the  art  of  doing  by  means  of  words  what 
the  painter  does  by  means  of  colors. —  Macaulay. 


POE  203  POE 

Thoughts,  that  voluntary  move  harmonious  num- 
bers. —  Milton. 

The  world  is  so  grand  and  so  inexhaustible  that 
subjects  for  poems  should  never  be  wanted.  But  all 
poetry  should  be  the  poetry  of  circumstance;  that  is, 
it  should  be  inspired  by  the  Real.  A  particular 
subject  will  take  a  poetic  and  general  character  pre- 
cisely because  it  is  created  by  a  poet.  All  my  poetry 
is  the  poetry  of  circumstance.  It  wholly  owes  its 
birth  to  the  realities  of  life.  —  Goethe. 

Nothing  which  does  not  transport  is  poetry.  The 
lyre  is  a  winged  instrument.  — Joubert. 

Perhaps  there  are  no  warmer  lovers  of  the  muse 
than  those  who  are  only  permitted  occasionally  to 
gain  her  favors.  The  shrine  is  more  reverently  ap- 
proached by  the  pilgrim  from  afar  than  the  familiar 
worshiper.  Poetry  is  often  more  beloved  by  one 
whose  daily  vocation  is  amid  the  bustle  of  the  world. 
We  read  of  a  fountain  in  Arabia  upon  whose  basin 
is  inscribed,  "  Drink  and  away;  "  but  how  delicious 
is  that  hasty  draught,  and  how  long  and  brightly 
the  thought  of  its  transient  refreshment  dwells  in 
the  memory! —  Tuckerman. 

Old-fashioned  poetry,  but  choicely  good.  —  Izaak 
Walton. 

Poetry  is  not  made  out  of  the  understanding.  The 
question  of  common  sense  is  always:  '*  What  is  it 
good  for?  "  a  question  which  would  abolish  the  rose 
and  be  triumphantly  answered  by  the  cabbage. — 
Lowell. 

The  poetry  of  earth  is  never  dead.  —  Keats. 

Poets.  —  Poets,  like  race-horses,  must  be  fed, 
not  fattened.  —  Charles  IX. 

True  poets,  like  great  artists,  have  scarcely  any 
childhood,  and  no  old  age.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Modern  poets  mix  much  water  with  their  ink.  — 
Goethe. 


POE  204  POB 

There  is  nothing  of  which  Nature  has  been  more 
bountiful  tlian  poets.  They  swarm  like  the  spawn 
of  cod-fish,  with  a  vicious  fecundity,  that  invites 
and  requires  destruction.  To  publish  verses  is  be- 
come a  sort  of  evidence  that  a  man  wants  sense ; 
which  is  repelled  not  by  writing  good  verses,  but  by 
writing  excellent  verses.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

There  is  a  pleasure  in  poetic  pains  which  only 
poets  know.  —  Wordsworth. 

An  artist  that  works  in  marble  or  colors  has  them 
all  to  himself  and  his  tribe,  but  the  man  who  moulds 
his  thoughts  in  verse  has  to  employ  the  materials 
vulgarized  by  everybody's  use,  and  glorify  them  by 
his  handling.  —  Holmes. 

A  little  shallowness  might  be  useful  to  many  a 
poet !  What  is  depth,  after  all  ?  Is  the  pit  deeper 
than  the  shallow  mirror  which  reflects  its  lowest  re- 
cesses ?  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

We  praise  the  dramatic  poet  who  possesses  the  art 
of  drawing  tears  —  a  talent  which  he  has  in  common 
with  the  meanest  onion !  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

I  have  observed  a  gardener  cut  the  outward  rind 
of  a  tree  (which  is  the  surtout  of  it),  to  make  it  bear 
well:  and  this  is  a  natural  account  of  the  usual  pov- 
erty of  poets,  and  is  an  argument  why  wits,  of  all 
men  living,  ought  to  be  ill  clad.  I  have  always  a 
sacred  veneration  for  any  one  I  observe  to  be  a  little 
out  of  repair  in  his  person,  as  supposing  him  either 
a  poet  or  a  philosopher;  because  the  richest  minerals 
are  ever  found  under  the  most  ragged  and  withered 
surfaces  of  the  earth.  —  Swift. 

Words  become  luminous  when  the  poet's  finger 
has  passed  over  them  its  phosphorescence.  —  Jou- 
bert. 

Poets  are  the  hierophants  of  an  unapprehended  in- 
spiration ;  the  mirrors  of  the  gigantic  shadows  which 
futurity  casts  upon  the  present.  —  Shelley. 


POE  205  POL' 

Poets  are  far  rarer  births  than  kings.  —  Ben  Jon- 
son. 

One  might  discover  schools  of  the  poets  as  dis- 
tinctly as  schools  of  the  painters,  by  much  converse 
in  them,  and  a  thorough  taste  of  their  manner  of 
writing.  —  Pope, 

They  learn  in  suffering  what  they  teach  in  song. 
—  Shelley. 

Policy.  —  He  has  mastered  all  points  who  has 
combined  the  useful  with  the  agreeable.  —  Horace. 

At  court  one  becomes  a  sort  of  human  ant-eater, 
and  learns  to  catch  one's  prey  by  one's  tongue.  — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 

Measures,  not  men,  have  always  been  my  mark. — 
Goldsmith. 

In  a  troubled  state,  we  must  do  as  in  foul  weather 
upon  a  river,  not  think  to  cut  directly  through,  for 
the  boat  may  be  filled  with  water;  but  rise  and  fall 
as  the  waves  do,  and  give  way  as  much  as  we  con- 
veniently can.  —  Seldon. 

To  manage  men  one  ought  to  have  a  sharp  mind 
in  a  velvet  sheath.  —  George  Eliot. 

Politeness.  —  Politeness  is  fictitious  benevo- 
lence. It  supplies  the  place  of  it  among  those  who 
see  each  other  only  in  public,  or  but  little.  Depend 
upon  it,  the  want  of  it  never  fails  to  produce  some- 
thing disagreeable  to  one  or  other.  I  have  always 
applied  to  good  breeding  what  Addison,  in  his 
*'  Cato,"  says  of  honor:  '*  Honor  's  a  sacred  tie:  the 
law  of  kings;  the  noble  mind's  distinguishing  per- 
fection; that  aids  and  strengthens  Virtue  where  it 
meets  her,  and  imitates  her  actions  where  she  is 
not."  —  Johnson. 

Self-command  is  the  main  elegance.  —  Emerson. 

Politeness  smooths  wrinkles. — Joubert. 

Politeness  is  as  natural  to  delicate  natures  as  per- 
fume is  to  flowers.  —  De  Finod. 


POL  206  POS 

Politics.  —  It  is  the  misfortune  of  all  miscel- 
laneous political  combinations,  that  with  the  purest 
motives  of  their  more  generous  members  are  ever 
mixed  the  most  sordid  interests  and  the  fiercest  pas- 
sions of  mean  confederates.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Nothing  is  politically  right  which  is  morally  wrong. 
—  Daniel  O'Connell. 

Those  who  think  must  govern  those  who  toil.  — 
Goldsmith. 

The  man  who  can  make  two  ears  of  corn,  or  two 
blades  of  grass,  grow  on  the  spot  where  only  one 
grew  before,  would  deserve  better  of  mankind,  and 
render  more  essential  service  to  the  country,  than 
the  whole  race  of  politicians  put  together.  —  Swift. 

Jarring  interests  of  themselves  create  the  accord- 
ing music  of  a  well- mixed  state.  —  Pope. 

Wise  men  and  gods  are  on  the  strongest  side.  — 
Sir  C.  Sedley. 

The  thorough-paced  politician  must  laugh  at  the 
squeamishness  of  his  conscience,  and  read  it  another 
lecture.  —  South. 

A  thousand  years  scarce  serve  to  form  a  state  ;  an 
hour  may  lay  it  in  the  dust.  —  Byron. 

Extended  empire,  like  extended  gold,  exchanges 
solid  strength  for  feeble  splendor.  —  Johnson. 

Possessions.  —  It  so  falls  out  that  what  we 
have  we  prize  not  to  the  worth  whiles  we  enjoy  it; 
but  being  lacked  and  lost,  why  then  we  rack  the 
value  ;  then  we  find  the  virtue  that  possession  would 
not  show  us  whiles  it  was  ours.  —  Shakespeare. 

All  comes  from  and  will  go  to  others.  —  George 
Herbert. 

In  life,  as  in  chess,  one's  own  pawns  block  one's 
way.  A  man's  very  wealth,  ease,  leisure,  children, 
books,  which  should  help  him  to  win,  more  often 
checkmate  him,  —  Charles  Buxton. 


POS  207  POV 

In  all  worldly  things  that  a  man  pursues  with  the 
greatest  eagerness  and  intention  of  mind  imaginable, 
he  finds  not  half  the  pleasure  in  the  actual  posses- 
sion of  them  as  he  proposed  to  himself  in  the  expec- 
tation. —  South. 

As  soon  as  women  become  ours  we  are  no  longer 
theirs.  —  Montaigne. 

Attainment  is  followed  by  neglect,  and  possession 
by  disgust.  The  malicious  remark  of  the  Greek 
epigrammatist  on  marriage  may  apply  to  every  other 
course  of  life,  —  that  its  two  days  of  happiness  are 
the  first  and  the  last.  —  Johnson. 

Posterity.  —  Posterity  preserves  only  what 
will  pack  into  small  compass.  Jewels  are  handed 
down  from  age  to  age,  less  portable  valuables  dis- 
appear. —  Lord  Stanley. 

The  drafts  which  true  genius  draws  upon  poster- 
ity, although  they  may  not  always  be  honored  so 
soon  as  they  are  due,  are  sure  to  be  paid  with  com- 
pound interest  in  the  end.  —  Colton. 

Poverty.  —  Many  good  qualities  are  not  suffi- 
cient to  balance  a  single  want  —  the  want  of  money. 
—  Zimmerman. 

Few  save  the  poor  feel  for  the  poor.  —  L.  E.  Lan- 
don. 

Thou  shalt  know  by  experience  how  salt  the  savor 
is  of  others'  bread,  and  how  sad  a  path  it  is  to  climb 
and  descend  another's  stairs.  —  Dante. 

Riches  endless  is  as  poor  as  winter,  to  him  that 
ever  fears  he  shall  be  poor.  —  Shakespeare. 

A  poor  man  resembles  a  fiddler,  whose  music, 
though  liked,  is  not  much  praised,  because  he  lives 
by  it;  while  a  gentleman  performer,  though  the 
most  wretched  scraper  alive,  throws  the  audience 
into  raptures.  —  Goldsmith. 

He  is  not  poor  that  little  hath,  but  he  that  much 
desires.  —  Daniel, 


POV  208  PRA 

^  The  wicked  man's  tempter,  the  good  man's  perdi- 
tion, the  proud  man's  curse,  the  melancholy  man's 
halter,  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Power.  —  The  weakest  living  creature,  by  con- 
centrating his  powers  on  a  single  object,  can  accom- 
plish something.  The  strongest,  by  dispensing  his 
over  many,  may  fail  to  accomplish  anything.  The 
drop,  by  continually  falling,  bores  its  passage  through 
the  hardest  rock.  The  hasty  torrent  rushes  over  it 
with  hideous  uproar,  and  leaves  no  trace  behind.  — 
Carlyle. 

Oh  for  a  forty  parson  power.  —  Byron. 

Power  is  so  characteristically  calm,  that  calmness 
in  itself  has  the  aspect  of  power,  and  forbearance 
implies  strength.  The  orator  who  is  known  to  have 
at  his  command  all  the  weapons  of  invective  is  most 
formidable  when  most  courteous.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Praise.  —  Expect  not  praise  without  envy  until 
you  are  dead.  Honors  bestowed  on  the  illustrious 
dead  have  in  them  no  admixture  of  envy  ;  for  the 
living  pity  the  dead;  and  pity  and  envy,  like  oil  and 
vinegar,  assimilate  not.  —  Colton. 

Praise  is  the  best  diet  for  us  after  all.  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

Desert  being  the  essential  condition  of  praise, 
there  can  be  no  reality  in  the  one  without  the  other. 
—  Washington  Allston. 

Damn  with  faint  praise.  —  Pope. 

Counsel  is  not  so  sacred  a  thing  as  praise,  since 
the  former  is  only  useful  among  men,  but  the  lat- 
ter is  for  the  most  part  reserved  for  the  gods.  —  Py- 
thagoras. 

Praise  undeserved  is  satire  in  disguise.  —  Broad- 
hurst. 

One  good  deed,  dying  tongueless,  slaughters  a 
thousand  waiting  upon  that.  Our  praises  are  our 
wages.  —  Shakespeare. 


PRA  209  PRE 

Prayer.  —  The  Lord's  Prayer  contains  the  sum 
total  of  religion  and  morals.  —  Wellington. 

Nymph,  in  thy  orisons  be  all  my  sins  remembered. 

—  Shakespeare. 

'Tis  heaven  alone  that  is  given  away;  'tis  only 
God  may  be  had  for  the  asking.  —  Lowell. 

Let  our  prayers,  like  the  ancient  sacrifices,  ascend 
morning  and  evening.  Let  our  days  begin  and  end 
with  God.  —  Channing. 

The  few  that  pray  at  all  pray  oft  amiss.  —  Cowper. 

Such  words  as  Heaven  alone  is  fit  to  hear.  — 
Dn/den. 

What  are  men  better  than  sheep  or  goats,  that 
nourish  a  blind  life  within  the  brain,  if,  knowing 
God,  they  lift  not  hands  of  prayer  both  for  them- 
selves and  those  who  call  them  friends !  —  T'ennyson, 

Prayer  ardent  opens  heaven.  —  Young. 

Solicitude  is  the  audience-chamber  of  God.  — 
Landor. 

The  best  answer  to  all  objections  urged  against 
prayer  is  the  fact  that  man  cannot  help  praying;  for 
we  may  be  sure  that  that  which  is  so  spontaneous 
and  ineradicable  in  human  nature  has  its  fitting  ob- 
jects and  methods  in  the  arrangements  of  a  bound- 
less Providence.  —  CJiapin. 

He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best.  —  Coleridge. 

Preaching.  —  Preachers  say,  do  as  I  say,  not 
as  1  do.  But  if  a  physician  had  the  same  disease 
upon  him  that  I  have,  and  he  should  bid  me  do  one 
thing  and  he  do  quite  another,  could  I  believe  him  ? 

—  iSelden. 

Preface  .  —  Your  opening  promises  some  great 
design.  —  Horace. 

A  preface,  being  the  entrance  of  a  book,  should 
invite  by  its  beauty.     An  elegant  porch  announces 
the  splendor  of  the  interior.  —  Disraeli, 
U 


PRE  210  PRE 

A  good  preface  is  as  essential  to  put  the  reader 
into  good  humor,  as  a  good  prologue  is  to  a  play,  or 
a  fine  symphony  is  to  an  opera,  containing  something 
analogous  to  the  work  itself;  so  that  we  may  feel  its 
want  as  a  desire  not  elsewhere  to  be  gratified.  The 
Italians  call  the  preface  —  La  salsa  del  libro  —  the 
sauce  of  the  book;  and,  if  well-seasoned,  it  creates 
an  appetite  in  the  reader  to  devour  the  book  itself. 
—  Disraeli. 

Prejudice. —  He  who  knows  only  his  own  side 
of  the  case  knows  little  of  that.  —  J.  Stuart  Mill. 

Prejudice,  which  sees  what  it  pleases,  cannot  see 
what  is  plain.  — Aubrey  de  Vere. 

All  looks  yellow  to  the  jaundiced  eye. — Pope. 

Prejudice  is  the  reason  of  fools.  —  Voltaire. 

Ignorance  is  less  remote  from  the  truth  than  prej- 
udice. —  Diderot. 

Present,  The.  —  Since  Time  is  not  a  person 
we  can  overtake  when  he  is  gone,  let  us  honor  him 
with  mirth  and  cheef  ulness  of  heart  while  he  is  pass- 
ing. —  Goethe. 

Man,  living,  feeling  man,  is  the  easy  sport  of  the 
over-mastering  present.  —  Schiller. 

'Tis  but  a  short  journey  across  the  isthmus  of 
Now.  —  Bovee. 

The  present  hour  is  always  wealthiest  when  it  is 
poorer  than  the  future  ones,  as  that  is  the  pleasant- 
est  site  which  affords  the  pleasantest  prospect. — 
Thoreau. 

Let  us  enjoy  the  fugitive  hour.  Man  has  no  har- 
bor, time  has  no  shore,  it  rushes  on  and  carries  us 
with  it.  —  Lamarline. 

Presentiment.  —  We  walk  in  the  midst  of 
secrets  —  we  are  encompassed  with  mysteries.  We 
know  not  what  takes  place  in  the  atmosphere  that 


PRE  211  PRE 

surrounds  us  —  we  know  not  what  relations  it  has 
with  our  minds.  But  one  thing  is  sure,  that,  under 
certain  conditions,  our  soul,  through  the  exercise  of 
mysterious  functions,  has  a  greater  power  than  rea- 
son, and  that  the  power  is  given  it  to  antedate  the 
future,  —  ay,  to  see  into  the  future.  —  Goethe. 

We  should  not  neglect  a  presentiment.  Every 
man  has  within  him  a  spark  of  divine  radiance  which 
is  often  the  torch  which  illumines  the  darkness  of  our 
future.  —  Madame  de  Girardin. 

Press.  —  The  press  is  not  only  free,  it  is  power- 
ful. That  power  is  ours.  It  is  the  proudest  that 
man  can  enjoy.  It  was  not  granted  by  monarchs,  it 
was  not  gained  for  us  by  aristocracies;  but  it  sprang 
from  the  people,  and,  with  an  immortal  instinct,  it 
has  always  worked  for  the  people. — B.  Disraeli. 

Presumption.  —  Presumption  is  our  natural 
and  original  disease.  —  Montaigne. 

Presumption  never  stops  in  its  first  attempt.  If 
Caesar  comes  once  to  pass  the  Rubicon,  he  will  be 
sure  to  march  further  on,  even  till  he  enters  the  very 
bowels  of  Rome,  and  breaks  open  the  Capitol  itself. 
He  that  wades  so  far  as  to  wet  and  foul  himself, 
cares  not  how  much  he  trashes  further.  —  South. 

He  that  presumes  steps  into  the  throne  of  God.  — 

South. 

Pretence.  —  As  a  general  rule,  people  who 
flagrantly  pretend  to  anything  are  the  reverse  of 
that  which  they  pretend  to.  A  man  who  sets  up  for 
a  saint  is  sure  to  be  a  sinner,  and  a  man  who  boasts 
that  he  is  a  sinner  is  sure  to  have  some  feeble,  maud- 
lin, sniveling  bit  of  saintship  about  him  which  is 
enough  to  make  him  a  humbug.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Pretension.  —  Pretences  go  a  great  way  with 
men  that  take  fair  words  and  magisterial  looks  for 
current  payment.  — U Estrange. 


PRI  212  PRI 

Pride.  —  I  have  been  more  and  more  convinced, 
the  more  I  think  of  it,  that  in  general,  pride  is  at 
the  bottom  of  all  great  mistakes.  All  the  other  pas- 
sions do  occasional  good  ;  but  whenever  pride  puts 
in  its  word,  everything  goes  wrong;  and  what  it 
might  really  be  desirable  to  do,  quietly  and  inno- 
cently, it  is  mortally  dangerous  to  do  proudly.  — 
Rui>kin. 

Pride's  chickens  have  bonny  feathers,  but  they 
are  an  expensive  brood  to  rear — they  eat  up  every- 
thing, and  are  always  lean  when  brought  to  mar- 
ket. —  Alexander  Smith. 

When  pride  thaws  look  for  floods.  —  Bailey. 

Pride,  like  laudanum  and  other  poisonous  medi- 
cines, is  beneficial  in  small,  though  injurious  in 
large,  quantities.  No  man  who  is  not  pleased  with 
hinii^elf,  even  in  a  personal  sense,  can  please  others. 

—  Frederick  Saunders. 

Pride  is  seldom  delicate ;  it  will  please  itself  with 
very  mean  advantages.  —  Johnson. 

Principles.  —  Principle  is  a  passion  for  truth. 

—  Hazlitt. 

Principles,  like  troops  of  the  line,  are  undisturbed, 
and  stand  fast.  —  Richter. 

Whatever  lies  beyond  the  limits  of  experience, 
and  claims  another  origin  than  that  of  induction  and 
deduction  from  established  data,  is  illegitimate. — 
G.  H.  Lewes. 

The  value  of  a  principle  is  the  number  of  things 
it  will  explain;  and  there  is  no  good  theory  of 
disease  which  does  not  at  once  suggest  a  cure.  — 
Emerson. 

What  is  the  essence  and  the  life  of  character? 
Principle,  integrity,  independence,  or,  as  one  of  our 
great  old  writers  has  it,  "that  inbred  loyalty  unto 
virtue  which  can  serve  her  without  a  livery."  — 
Balwer-Lytton. 


PHI  213  PRO 

The  change  we  personally  experience  from  time 
to  time  we  obstinately  deny  to  our  principles. — 
Zimmerman. 

Printing. — Things  printed  can  never  be 
stopped;  they  are  like  babies  baptized,  they  have  a 
soul  from  that  moment,  and  go  on  forever.  —  George 
Meredith, 

Prison.  —  Young  Crime's  finishing  school. — 
Mrs.  Balfour. 

The  worst  prison  is  not  of  stone.  It  is  of  a  throb- 
bing heart,  outraged  by  an  infamous  life. —  Beecher. 

Procrastination.  —  Indulge  in  procrastina- 
tion, and  in  time  yon  will  come  to  this,  that  bt;cause 
a  thing  ought  to  be  done,  therefore  you  can't  do  it. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 

The  man  who  procrastinates  struggles  with  ruin. 

—  Hesiod. 

There  is,  by  God's  grace,  an  immeasurable  dis- 
tance between  late  and  too  late.  —  Madame  Sweich- 
ine. 

Prodigality.  —  This  is  a  vice  too  brave  and 
costly  to  be  kept  and  maintained  at  any  easy  rate; 
it  must  have  large  pensions,  and  be  fed  with  both 
hands,  though  the  man  who  feeds  it  starve  for  his 
pains.  —  Dr.  South. 

When  I  see  a  young  profligate  squandering  his 
fortune  in  bagnios,  or  at  the  gaming-table,  I  cannot 
help  looking  on  him  as  hastening  his  own  death,  and 
in  a  manner  digging  his  own  grave.  —  Goldsmith. 

The  gains  of  prodigals  are  like  fig-trees  growing 
on  a  precipice:  for  these,  none  are  better  but  kites 
and  crows;  for  those,  only  harlots  and  flatterers.  — 
Socrates. 

Progress.  —  All  that  is  human  must  retrograde 
if  it  do  not  advance.  —  Gibbon. 


PRO  214  PRO 

What  matters  it?  say  some,  a  little  more  knowl- 
edge for  man,  a  little  more  liberty,  a  little  more  gen- 
eral development.  Life  is  so  short!  He  is  a  being 
so  limited !  But  it  is  precisely  because  his  days  are 
few,  and  he  cannot  attain  to  all,  that  a  little  more 
culture  is  of  importance  to  him.  The  ignorance  in 
which  God  leaves  man  is  divine;  the  ignorance  in 
which  man  leaves  himself  is  a  crime  and  a  shame. 
—  X.  Doudan. 

Revolutions  never  go  backwards.  —  Emerson. 

What  pains  and  tears  the  slightest  steps  of  man's 
progress  have  cost!  Every  hair-breadth  forward  has 
been  in  the  agony  of  some  soul,  and  humanity  has 
reached  blessing  after  blessing  of  all  its  vast  achieve- 
ment of  good  with  bleeding  feet.  —  Bartol. 

Progress  is  lame.  —  St.  Bueve. 

We  know  -what  a  masquerade  all  development  is, 
and  what  effective  shapes  may  be  disguised  in  help- 
less embryos.  In  fact,  the  world  is  full  of  hopeful 
analogies  and  handsome  dubious  eggs  called  possi- 
bilities. —  George  Eliot. 

The  pathway  of  progress  will  still,  as  of  old,  bear 
the  traces  of  martyrdom,  but  the  advance  is  inevit- 
able. —  G.  H.  Lewes. 

Nations  are  educated  through  suffering,  mankind 
is  purified  through  sorrow.  The  power  of  creating 
obstacles  to  progress  is  human  and  partial.  Omnip- 
otence is  with  the  ages.  —  Mazzini. 

Every  age  has  its  problem,  by  solving  which,  hu- 
manity is  helped  forward.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Men  of  great  genius  and  large  heart  sow  the  seeds 
of  a  new  degree  of  progress  in  the  world,  but  they 
bear  fruit  only  after  many  years.  — Mazzini. 

It  is  curious  to  note  the  old  sea-mai-gins  of  hu- 
man thought.  Each  subsiding  century  reveals  some 
new  mystery ;  we  build  where  monsters  used  to  hide 
themselves.  —  Longfellow. 


PRO  215  PRO 

The  activity  of  to-day  and  the  assurance  of  to- 
morrow. —  Emerson. 

The  moral  law  of  the  universe  is  progress.  Every 
generation  that  passes  idly  over  the  earth  without 
adding  to  that  progress  by  one  degree  remains  un- 
inscribed  upon  tlie  register  of  humanity,  and  the 
succeeding  generation  tramples  its  ashes  as  dust.  — 
Mazzini. 

A  fresh  mind  keeps  the  body  fresh.  Take  in  the 
ideas  of  the  day,  drain  off  those  of  yesterday.  As 
to  the  morrow,  time  enough  to  consider  it  when  it 
becomes  to-day.  —  BuLicer-Lytton. 

Promise.  —  Promises  hold  men  faster  than 
benefits  :  hope  is  a  cable  and  gratitude  a  thread. — 
J.  Petit  Senn. 

Proof.  —  In  the  eyes  of  a  wise  judge  proofs  by 
reasoning  are  of  more  value  than  witnesses.  —  Cicero, 

Give  me  the  ocular  proof  ;  make  me  see 't ;  or 
at  the  least,  so  prove  it,  that  the  probation  bear  no 
hinge,  no  loop,  to  hang  a  doubt  upon.  —  Shakespeare, 

Prosperity.  —  Prosperity  makes  some  friends 
and  many  enemies.  —  Vauvenargues. 

That  fortitude  which  has  encountered  no  dangers, 
that  prudence  which  has  surmounted  no  difficulties, 
that  integrity  which  has  been  attacked  by  no  temp- 
tation, can  at  best  be  considered  but  as  gold  not 
yet  brought  to  the  test,  of  which  therefore  the  true 
value  cannot  be  assigned.  —  Johnson. 

Alas  for  the  fate  of  men!  Even  in  the  midst  of 
the  highest  prosperity  a  shadow  may  overturn  them; 
but  if  they  be  in  adverse  fortune  a  moistened  sponge 
can  blot  out  the  picture.  —  Aeschylus. 

Prosperity  lets  go  the  bridle.  —  George  Herbert. 

Proverbs.  —  Proverbs  are  somewhat  analagous 
to  those  medical  formulas  which,  being  in  frequent 
use,  are  kept  ready  made  up  in  the  chemists*  shops, 
and  which  often  save  the  framing  of  a  distinct  pre- 
scription. —  Bishop  Whately. 


PRO  216  PUN 

The  study  of  proverbs  maybe  more  instructive  and 
comprehensive  than  the  most  elaborate  scheme  of 
philosophy.  —  Motherwell. 

The  proverbial  wisdom  of  the  populace  in  the 
street,  on  the  roads,  and  in  the  markets,  instructs 
the  ear  of  him  who  studies  man  more  fully  than  a 
thousand  rules  ostentatiously  displayed.  — Lavater. 

Prudence.  —  There  is  no  amount  of  praise 
which  is  not  heaped  on  prudence;  yet  there  is  not 
the  most  insignificant  event  of  which  it  can  make  us 
sure.  —  Rochefoucauld. 

Too  many,  through  want  of  prudence,  are  golden 
apprentices,  silver  journeymen,  and  copper  masters. 
—  Whitfield. 

Men  of  sense  often  learn  from  their  enemies.  Pru- 
dence is  the  best  safeguard.  This  principle  cannot 
be  learned  from  a  friend,  but  an  enemy  extorts  it 
immediately.  It  is  from  their  foes,  not  their  friends, 
that  cities  learn  the  lesson  of  building  high  walls  and 
ships  of  war.  And  this  lesson  saves  their  children, 
their  homes,  and  their  properties.  —  Aristophanes. 

Punctuality.  —  Tlie  most  indispensable 
qualification  of  a  cook  is  punctuality.  The  same 
must  be  said  of  guests.  —  Brillat  Savarin. 

It  is  as  expedient  that  a  wicked  man  be  punished 
as  that  a  sick  man  be  cured  by  a  physician ;  for  all 
chastisement  is  a  kind  of  medicine.* —  Plato. 

Punctuality  is  the  stern  virtue  of  men  of  busi- 
ness, and  the  graceful  courtesy  of  princes.  —  Bulicer- 
Lytlon. 

Punishment.  —  One  man  meets  an  infamous 
punishment  for  that  crime  which  confers  a  diadem 
upon  another.  —  Juvenal. 

Punishment  is  lame,  but  it  comes. —  George  Her- 
bert. 

If  punishment  makes  not  the  will  supple  it  har- 
dens the  offender.  —  Locke. 


PUN  217  PUR 

Don't  let  us  rejoice  in  punishment,  even  when  the 
hand  of  God  alone  inflicts  it.  The  best  of  us  are  but 
poor  wretches  just  saved  from  shipwreck  :  can  we 
feel  anything  but  awe  and  pity  when  we  see  a  fellow- 
passenger  swallowed  by  the  waves  ?  —  George  Eliot. 

The  work  of  eradicating  crimes  is  not  by  making 
punishment  familiar,  but  formidable.  —  Goldsmith. 

The  public  have  more  interest  in  the  punishment 
of  an  injury  than  he  who  receives  it.  —  Cato. 

The  best  of  us  being  unfit  to  die,  what  an  inex- 
pressible absurdity  to  put  the  worst  to  death!  — 
Hmothorne. 

Puns.  —  I  have  very  little  to  say  about  puns ; 
they  are  in  very  bad  repute,  and  so  they  ought  to  be. 
The  wit  of  language  is  so  miserably  inferior  to  the 
wit  of  ideas,  that  it  is  very  deservedly  driven  out  of 
good  company.  Sometimes,  indeed,  a  pun  makes  its 
appearance  which  seems  for  a  moment  to  redeem  its 
species;  but  we  must  not  be  deceived  by  them:  it  is 
a  radically  bad  race  of  wit.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Conceits  arising  from  the  use  of  words  that  agree 
in  sound  but  differ  in  sense.  —  Addison. 

Purposes.  —  Man  proposes,  but  God  disposes. 
—  Thomas  a  Kempis. 

A  man's  heart  deviseth  his  way ;  but  the  Lord 
directeth  his  steles.  —  Bible. 

It  is  better  by  a  noble  boldness  to  run  the  risk  of 
being  subject  to  half  of  the  evils  which  we  antici- 
pate, than  to  remain  in  cowardly  listlessness  for  fear 
of  what  may  ha{)pen.  —  Herodotus. 

Purposes,  like  eggs,  unless  they  be  hatched  into 
action,  will  run  into  decay.  —  Smiles. 

Pursuit.  —  The  rapture  of  pursuing  is  the  prize 
the  vanquished  gain.  —  Longfellow. 

The  fruit  that  can  fall  without  shaking,  indeed  is 
too  mellow  for  me.  —  Lady  Montagu. 


QUA  218  QUO 


Quacks.  —  Pettifoggers  in  law  and  empirics  in 
medicine  have  held  from  time  immemorial  the  fee 
simple  of  a  vast  estate,  subject  to  no  alienation, 
diminution,  revolution,  nor  tax  —  the  folly  and  igno- 
rance of  mankind. —  Colton. 

Nothing  more  strikingly  betrays  the  credulity  of 
mankind  than  medicine.  Quackery  is  a  thing  uni- 
versal, and  universally  successful.  In  this  case  it 
becomes  literally  true  that  no  imposition  is  too  great 
for  the  credulity  of  men.  —  Thoreau. 

Qualities. —  Wood  burns  because  it  has  the 
proper  stuff  in  it ;  and  a  man  becomes  famous  be- 
cause he  has  the  proper  stuff  in  him.  —  Goethe. 

Quarrels. —  Coarse  kindness  is,  at  least,  better 
than  coarse  anger  ;  and  in  all  private  quarrels  the 
duller  nature  is  triumphant  by  reason  of  its  dullness. 

—  George  Eliot 

The  quarrels  of  lovers  are  like  summer  storms. 
Everything  is  more  beautiful  when  they  have  passed. 

—  Mme.  Necker. 

Questions.  —  There  are  innumerable  questions 
to  which  the  inquisitive  mind  can,  in  this  state,  re- 
ceive no  answer  :  Why  do  you  and  I  exist?  Why 
was  this  world  created  ?  And,  since  it  was  to  be 
created,  why  was  it  not  created  sooner?  —  Johnson. 

Quotation.  —  In  quoting  of  books,  quote  such 
authors  as  are  usually  read ;  others  you  may  read 
for  your  own  satisfaction,  but  not  name  them.  — 
Selden. 

If  these  little  sparks  of  holy  fire  which  I  have  thus 
heaped  up  together  do.  not  give  life  to  your  prepared 
and  already  enkindled  spirit,  yet  they  will  sometimes 
help  to  entertain  a  thought,  to  actuate  a  passion,  to 
employ  and  hallow  a  fancy.  —  Jeremy  Taylor. 


QUO  219  QUO 

If  the  grain  were  separated  from  the  chaff  which 
fills  the  works  of  our  National  Poets,  what  is  truly 
valuable  would  be  to  what  is  useless  in  the  proportion 
of  a  mole-hill  to  a  mountain.  —  Burke. 

It  is  the  beauty  and  independent  worth  of  the  ci- 
tations, far  more  than  their  appropriateness,  which 
have  made  Johnson's  Dictionary  popular  even  as  a 
reading-book.  —  Coleridge. 

Ruin  half  an  author's  graces  by  plucking  bon-mots 
from  their  places.  —  Hannah  More. 

I  take  memorandums  of  the  schools.  —  Sioift. 

The  obscurest  sayings  of  the  truly  great  are  often 
those  which  contain  the  germ  of  the  profoundest  and 
most  useful  truths.  —  Mazzini. 

To  select  well  among  old  things  is  almost  equal  to 
inventing  new  ones.  —  TruUet. 

Why  are  not  more  gems  from  our  great  authors 
scattered  over  the  country?  Great  books  are  not  in 
everybody's  reach;  and  though  it  is  better  to  know 
them  thoroughly  than  to  know  theui  only  here  and 
there,  yet  it  is  a  good  work  to  give  a  little  to  those 
who  have  neither  time  nor  means  to  get  more.  Let 
every  bookworm,  when  in  any  fragrant,  scarce  old 
tome  he  discovers  a  sentence,  a  story,  an  illustra- 
tion, that  does  his  heart  good,  hasten  to  give  it.  — 
Coleridge. 

A  couplet  of  verse,  a  period  of  prose,  may  cling  to 
the  rock  of  ages  as  a  shell  that  survives  a  deluge.  — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 

Selected  thoughts  depend  for  their  flavor  upon  the 
terseness  of  their  expression,  for  thoughts  are  grains 
of  sugar,  or  salt,  that  must  be  melted  in  a  drop  of 
water.  — /.  Petit  Senn. 

As  people  read  nothing  in  these  days  that  is  more 
than  forty-eight  hours  old,  I  am  daily  admonished 
that  allusions,  the  most  obvious,  to  anything  in  the 
rear  of  our  own  times  need  explanation.  —  De 
Quincey. 


RAI  220  REA 


R. 

Rain. — Clouds  dissolved  the  thirsty  ground 
supply.  —  Roscommon. 

The  kind  refresher  of  the  summer  heats.  —  Thom- 
son. 

Vexed  sailors  curse  the  rain  for  which  poor  shep- 
herds prayed  in  vain.  —  Waller. 

The  spongy  clouds  are  filled  with  gathering  rain. 
—  Dryden. 

Rainbow.  —  That  smiling  daughter  of  the 
storm.  —  Colton. 

Born  of  the  shower,  and  colored  by  the  sun.  — 
J.  C.  Prince. 

God's  glowing  covenant.  —  Hosea  Ballou. 

Rank. — If  it  were  ever  allowable  to  forget 
what  is  due  to  superiority  of  rank,  it  would  be  when 
the  privileged  themselves  remember  it.  —  Madame 
Swetchine. 

I  weigh  the  man,  not  his  title;  'tis  not  the  king's 
stamp  can  make  the  metal  better.  —  Wycherley. 

Of  the  king's  creation  you  may  be;  but  he  who 
makes  a  count  ne'er  made  a  man.  —  Southerne. 

Rashness.  —  Rashness  and  haste  make  all 
things  insecure.  —  Denham. 

We  may  outrun  by  violent  swiftness  that  which 
we  run  at,  and  lose  by  overrunning  —  Shakespeare. 

Reading.  —  Read,  and  refine  your  appetite; 
learn  to  live  upon  instruction ;  feast  your  mind  and 
mortify  your  flesh ;  read,  and  take  your  nourishment 
in  at  your  eyes,  shut  up  your  mouth,  and  chew  the 
cud  of  understanding.  —  Congreve. 

Deep  versed  in  books,  but  shallow  in  himself. — 
Milton. 


REA  221  REA 

The  love  of  reading  enables  a  man  to  exchange  the 
wearisome  hours  of  life,  which  come  to  every  one,  for 
hours  of  delight.  —  Montesquieu. 

There  was,  it  is  said,  a  criminal  in  Italy,  who  was 
suffered  to  make  his  choice  between  Guicciardini  and 
the  galleys.  He  chose  the  history.  But  the  war  of 
Pisa  was  too  much  for  him.  He  changed  his  mind, 
and  went  to  the  oars.  — Macaulay. 

Exceedingly  well  read  and  profited  in  strange  con- 
cealments. —  Shakespeare. 

The  reader,  who  would  follow  a  close  reasoner  to 
the  summit  of  the  absolute  principle  of  any  one  im- 
portant subject,  has  chosen  a  chamois-hunter  for  his 
guide.  He  cannot  carry  us  on  his  shoulders;  we  must 
strain  our  sinews,  as  he  has  strained  his;  and  make 
firm  footing  on  the  smooth  rock  for  ourselves,  by  the 
blood  of  toil  from  our  own  feet.  —  Coleridge. 

Reason.  —  Reason  lies  between  the  spur  and 
the  bridle.  —  George  Herbert. 

Many  are  destined  to  reason  wrongly ;  others  not 
to  reason  at  all ;  and  others  to  persecute  those  who 
do  reason.  —  Voltaire. 

If  reasons  were  as  plenty  as  blackberries  I  would 
give  no  man  a  reason  upon  compulsion.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

We  can  only  reason  from  what  is  ;  we  can  reason 
on  actualities,  but  not  on  possibilities.  —  Bolingbroke. 

I  do  not  call  reason  that  brutal  reason  which 
crushes  with  its  weight  what  is  holy  and  sacred  ;  that 
malignant  reason  which  delights  in  the  errors  it  suc- 
ceeds in  discovering ;  that  unfeeling  and  scornful 
reason  which  insults  credulity.  — Joixbert. 

I  have  no  other  but  a  woman's  reason  :  I  think  him 
so,  because  I  think  him  so.  —  Shakespeare. 

Reason 's  progressive;  instinct  is  complete:  swift 
instinct  leaps ;  slow  reason  feebly  climbs.  —  Young. 


REA  222  EEC 

Faith  evermore  looks  upward  and  descries  objects 
remote ;  but  reason  can  discover  things  only  near, — 
sees  nothing  that 's  above  her.  —  Quarks. 

How  can  finite  grasp  infinity?  —  Dryden. 

Let  us  not  dream  that  reason  can  ever  be  popular. 
Passions,  emotions,  may  be  made  popular,  but  rea- 
son remains  ever  the  property  of  the  few.  —  Goethe. 

Reason  is,  so  to  speak,  the  police  of  the  kingdom 
of  art,  seeking  only  to  preserve  order.  In  life  itself 
a  cold  arithmetician  who  adds  up  our  follies.  Some- 
times, alas  !  only  the  accountant  in  bankruptcy  of  a 
broken  heart.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Sure  He  that  made  us  with  such  large  discourse, 
looking  before  and  after,  gave  us  not  that  capability 
and  crodlike  reason  to  rust  in  us  unused.  —  Shake- 

o 

speare. 

Reason  may  cure  illusions  but  not  suffering. — 
Alfred  de  M asset. 

Reciprocity.  —  There  is  one  word  which 
may  serve  as  a  rule  of  practice  for  all  one's  life, 
that  word  is  reciprocity.  What  you  do  not  wish 
done  to  yourself,  do  not  do  to  others.  —  Confucius. 

Reconciliation.  — It  is  much  safer  to  recon- 
cile an  enemy  than  to  conquer  him  ;  victory  may 
deprive  him  of  his  poison,  but  reconciliation  of  his 
will.  —  Owen  FelLham. 

Rectitude.  —  The  great  high-road  of  human 
welfare  lies  along  the  highway  of  steadfast  well-do- 
ing, and  they  who  are  the  most  persistent,  and  work 
in  the  truest  spirit,  will  invariably  be  the  most  suc- 
cessful. —  Samuel  Smiles. 

If  you  would  convince  a  man  that  he  does  wrong, 
do  right.  But  do  not  care  to  convince  him.  Men 
will  believe  what  they  see.  Let  them  see.  — 
Thoreau. 

No  man  can  do  right  unless  he  is  good,  wise,  and 
strong.     What  wonder  we  fail  ?  —  Charles  Buxton, 


REF  223  EEL 

Refinement.  —  Kefinement  that  carries  us 
away  from  our  fellow-men  is  not  God's  refinement.  — 
Beecher. 

Refinement  is  the  lifting  of  one's  self  upwards 
from  the  merely  sensual,  the  effort  of  the  soul  to 
etherealize  the  common  wants  and  uses  of  life. — 
Beecher. 

Reflection.  —  We  are  told,  "Let  not  the  sun 
go  down  on  your  wrath."  This,  of  course,  is  best; 
but,  as  it  generally  does,  I  would  add,  never  act  or 
write  till  it  has  done  so.  This  rule  has  saved  me 
from  many  an  act  of  folly.  It  is  wonderful  what  a 
different  view  we  take  of  the  same  event  four-and- 
twenty  hours  after  it  has  happened.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Reform.  —  We  are  reformers  in  spring  and  sum- 
mer; in  autumn  and  winter  we  stand  by  the  old  — 
reformers  in  the  morning,  conservatives  at  night. 
Reform  is  affirmative,  conservatism  is  negative ; 
conservatism  goes  for  comfort,  reform  for  truth.  — 
Emerson. 

Long  is  the  way  and  hard,  that  out  of  hell  leads 
up  to  light.  —  Milton. 

Conscious  remorse  and  anguish  must  be  felt,  to 
curb  desire,  to  break  the  stubborn  will,  and  work  a 
second  nature  in  the  soul.  —  Rowe. 

They  say  best  men  are  moulded  out  of  faults,  and, 
for  the  most,  become  much  more  the  better  for  being 
a  little  bad  !  —  Shakespeare. 

Regret.  —  Why  is  it  that  a  blessing  only  when 
it  is  lost  cuts  as  deep  into  the  heart  as  a  sharp  dia- 
mond? Why  must  we  first  weep  before  we  can  love 
so  deeply  that  our  hearts  ache  ?  —  Richie?'. 

Religion.  —  Natural  religion  supplies  still  all 
the  facts  which  are  disguised  under  the  dogma  of 
popular  creeds.  The  progress  of  religion  is  steadily 
to  its  identity  with  morals.  —  Emerson. 


REL  224  KEM 

I  endeavor  in  vain  to  give  my  parishioners  more 
cheerful  ideas  of  religion;  to  teach  them  that  God  is 
not  a  jealous,  childish,  merciless  tyrant;  that  He  is 
best  served  by  a  regular  tenor  of  good  actions,  not 
by  bad  singing,  ill-composed  prayers,  and  eternal  ap- 
prehensions. But  the  luxury  of  false  religion  is  to 
be  unhappy  !  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Nowhere  would  there  be  consolation  if  religion 
were  not.  —  Jacohi. 

Monopolies  are  just  as  injurious  to  religion  as 
to  trade.  With  competition  religions  preserve  their 
strength,  but  they  will  never  again  flourish  in  their 
original  glory  until  religious  freedom,  or,  in  other 
words,  free  trade  among  the  gods,  is  introduced.  — 
Heinrich  Heine. 

A  religion  giving  dark  views  of  God,  and  infusing 
superstitious  fear  of  innocent  enjoyment,  instead  of 
aiding  sober  habits,  will,  by  making  men  abject  and 
sad,  impair  their  moral  force,  and  prepare  them  for 
intemperance  as  a  refuge  from  depression  or  despair. 

—  Channing. 

Religion  is  the  hospital  of  the  souls  that  the  world 
has  wounded.  —  /.  Petit  Senn. 

Ah  !  what  a  divine  religion  might  be  found  out  if 
charity  were  really  made  the  principle  of  it  instead 
of  faith.  —  Shelley. 

The  ship  retains  her  anchorage  yet  drifts  with  a 
certain  range,  subject  to  wind  and  tide.  So  we  have 
for  an  anchorage  the  cardinal  truths  of  the  gospel. 

—  Gladstone. 

The  best  religion  is  the  most  tolerant.  —  Emile  de 
Girardin. 

Remembrance.  —  The  greatest  comfort  of  my 
old  age,  and  that  which  gives  me  the  highest  satis- 
faction, is  the  pleasing  remembrance  of  the  many 
benefits  and  friendly  offices  I  have  done  to  others.  — 
Cato. 


REM  225  REP 

Pleasure  is  the  flower  that  fades;  remembrance  is 
the  lasting  perfume. — Boufflers. 

Remorse. — Remorse  is  the  punishment  of 
crime;  repentance  its  expiation.  The  former  apper- 
tains to  a  tormented  conscience;  the  latter  to  a  soul 
changed  for  the  better.  —  Jouhert. 

Remorse  sleeps  in  the  atmosphere  of  prosperity. 

—  Rousseau. 

Unnatural  deeds  do  breed  unnatural  troubles. 
Infected  minds  to  their  deaf  pillows  will  discharge 
their  secrets.  —  Shakespeare. 

Truth  severe,  by  fairy  fiction  drest.  —  Gray. 

Repartee.  —  The  impromptu  reply  is  precisely 
the  touchstone  of  the  man  of  wit.  —  Moliere. 

Repentance.  —  Repentance  clothes  in  ofrass 
and  flowers  the  grave  in  which  the  past  is  laid.  — 

Sterling. 

He  repents  on  thorns  that  sleeps  in  beds  of  roses. 

—  Quarles. 

Beholding  heaven,  and  feeling  hell.  — Moore. 

Is  it  not  in  accordance  with  divine  order  that 
every  mortal  is  thrown  into  that  situation  where  his 
hidden  evils  can  be  brought  forth  to  his  own  view, 
that  he  may  know  them,  acknowledge  them,  strug- 
gle against  them,  and  put  them  away?  — Atma  Cora 
JRilchie. 

Repentance  is  second  innocence.  —  De  Bonald. 

Repose.  —  Repose  is  agreeable  to  the  human 
mind ;  and  decision  is  repose.  A  man  has  made  up 
his  opinions;  he  does  not  choose  to  be  disturbed;  and 
he  is  much  more  thankful  to  the  man  who  confirms 
him  in  his  errors,  and  leaves  him  alone,  than  he  is 
to  the  man  who  refutes  him,  or  who  instructs  him 
at  the  expense  of  his  tran<juillity.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Rest  is  the  sweet  sauce  of  labor.  —  Plutarch^ 
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REP  226  REP 

Reproach. — Few  love  to  hear  the  sins  they 
love  to  act.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  silent  upbraiding  of  the  eye  is  the  very 
poetry  of  reproach;  it  speaks  at  once  to  the  im- 
agination. —  Mrs.  Balfour. 

Republic.  —  Though  I  admire  republican  prin- 
ciples in  theory,  yet  I  am  afraid  the  practice  may  be 
too  perfect  for  human  nature.  We  tried  a  republic 
last  century  and  it  failed.  Let  our  enemies  try  next. 
I  hate  political  experiments.  —  Walpole. 

The  same  fact  that  Boccaccio  offers  in  support  of 
religion,  might  be  adduced  in  behalf  of  a  republic: 
*' It  exists  in  spite  of  its  ministers."  —  Heinrich 
Heine. 

At  twenty,  every  one  is  republican.  —  Lamartine. 

Reputation.  —  Reputation  is  one  of  the  prizes 
for  which  men  contend:  it  is,  as  Mr.  Burke  calls  it, 
"the  cheap  defence  and  ornament  of  nations,  and 
the  nurse  of  manly  exertions;"  it  produces  more 
labor  and  more  talent  then  twice  the  wealth  of  a 
country  could  ever  rear  up.  It  is  the  coin  of  geniu.<; 
and  it  is  the  imperious  duty  of  every  man  to  bestow 
it  with  the  most  scrupulous  justice  and  the  wisest 
economy.  —  Sydney  Smith, 

An  eminent  reputation  is  as  dangerous  as  a  bad 
one.  —  Tacitus. 

Reputation  is  but  the  synonym  of  popularity;  de- 
pendent on  suffrage,  to  be  increased  or  diminished 
at  the  will  of  the  voters.  —  Washington  Allston. 

My  name  and  memory  I  leave  to  men's  chari- 
table speeches,  to  foreign  nations,  and  to  the  next 
age.  —  Bacon. 

The  blaze  of  reputation  cannot  be  blown  out,  but 
it  often  dies  in  the  socket.  —  Johnson. 

One  may  be  better  than  his  reputation  or  his  con- 
duct, but  nevei-  better  than  his  principles.  —  Late'ua. 


REQ  ^27  RES 

Request. — No  music  is  so  charming  to  my 
ear  as  the  requests  of  my  friends,  and  the  supplica- 
tions of  those  in  want  of  my  assistance.  —  Ccesar. 

He  who  goes  round  about  in  his  requests  wants 
commonly  more  than  he  chooses  to  appear  to  want. 

—  Lavater. 

Resignation.  —  O  Lord,  I  do  most  cheer- 
fully commit  all  unto  Thee.  —  Fenelon. 

Let  God  do  with  me  what  He  will,  anything  He 
will;  and,  whatever  it  be,  it  will  be  either  heaven 
itself,  or  some  beginning  of  it.  —  Mounlford. 

A  man  that  fortune's  buffets  and  rewards  has 
ta'en  with  equal  thanks.  —  Shakespeare. 

Trust  in  God,  as  Moses  did,  let  the  way  be  ever 
so  dark ;  and  it  shall  come  to  pass  that  your  life  at 
last  shall  surpass  even  your  longing.  Not,  it  may 
be,  in  the  line  of  that  longing,  that  shall  be  as  it 
pleaseth  God;  but  the  glory  is  as  sure  as  the  grace, 
and  the  most  ancient  heavens  are  not  more  sure  than 
that.  —  Robert  Colhjer. 

Vulgar  minds  refuse  to  crouch  beneath  their  load ; 
the  brave  bear  theirs  without  repining.  —  Thomson. 

"My  will,  not  thine,  be  done,"  turned  Paradise 
into  a  desert.  "Thy  will,  not  mine,  be  done," 
turned  the  desert  into  a  paradise,  and  made  Geth- 
semane  the  gate  of  heaven.  —  Pressense. 

Resignation  is  the  courage  of  Christian  sorrow.  — 
Dr.   Vinet. 

Responsibility.  —  Responsibility  educates. 

—  Wendell  Phillips. 

Restlessness. —  The  mind  is  found  most 
acute  and  most  uneasy  in  the  morning.  Uneasiness 
is,  indeed,  a  species  of  sagacity  —  a  passive  sagacity. 
Fools  are  never  uneasy.  —  Goethe, 

Always  driven  towards  new  shores,  or  carried 
hence  without  hope  of  return,  shall  we  never,  on  the 
ocean  of  age  cast  anchor  for  even  a  day  ?  —  Lamar- 
tine. 


RET  228  REV 

Retribution.  —  Nemesis  is  lame,  but  she  is  of 
colossal  stature,  like  the  gods;  and  sometimes,  while 
her  sword  is  not  yet  unsheathed,  she  stretches  out 
her  huf^e  left  arm  and  grasps  her  victim.  The  mighty- 
hand  is  invisible,  but  the  victim  totters  under  the 
dire  clutch.  —  George  Eliot. 

"One  soweth  and  another  reapeth  "  is  a  verity 
that  applies  to  evil  as  well  as  good.  —  George  Eliot. 

Revenge.  —  Revenge  at  first,  though  sweet, 
bitter  ere  long  back  on  itself  recoils.  —  Milton. 

Revenge  is  a  debt,  in  the  paying  of  which  the 
greatest  knave  is  honest  and  sincere,  and,  so  far  as 
he  is  able,  punctual.  —  Colton. 

There  are  some  professed  Christians  who  would 
gladly  burn  their  enemies,  but  yet  who  forgive  them 
merely  because  it  is  heaping  coals  of  fire  on  their 
heads.  — F.  A.  Durivage. 

Revery.  —  In  that  sweet  mood  when  pleasant 
thoughts  bring  sad  thoughts  to  the  mind.  —  Words- 
worth. 

Revolution.  —  The  working  of  revolutions, 
therefore,  misleads  me  no  more;  it  is  as  necessary 
to  our  race  as  its  waves  to  the  stream,  that  it  may 
not  be  a  stagnant  marsh.  Ever  renewed  in  its 
forms,  the  genius  of  humanity  blossoms.  —  Herder. 

Great  revolutions  are  the  work  rather  of  princi- 
ples than  of  bayonets,  and  are  achieved  first  in  the 
moral,  and  afterwards  in  the  material  sphere.  — 
Mazzini. 

All  experience  hath  shown  that  mankind  are 
more  disposed  to  suffer,  while  evils  are  sulferable, 
than  to  right  themselves  by  abolishing  the  forms  to 
which  they  are  accustomed.  — Jefferson. 

Nothing  has  ever  remained  of  any  revolution  but 
what  was  ripe  in  the  conscience  of  the  masses.  — 
Ledru  Rollin. 


REV  229  RIC 

Revolution  is  the  larva  of  civilization.  —  Victor 
Hugo. 

We  deplore  the  outrages  which  accompany  revo- 
lutions. But  the  more  violent  the  outrages,  the 
more  assured  we  feel  that  a  revolution  was  neces- 
sary! The  violence  of  these  outrages  will  always 
be  proportioned  to  the  ferocity  and  ignorance  of  the 
people :  and  the  ferocity  and  ignorance  of  the  peo- 
ple will  be  proportioned  to  the  oppression  and  deg- 
radation under  which  they  have  been  accustomed  to 
live.  —  Macaulay. 

Let  them  call  it  mischief;  when  it 's  past  and 
prospered,  't  will  be  virtue.  — Ben  Jonson. 

Rhetoric.  —  In  composition,  it  is  the  art  of  put- 
ting ideas  together  in  graceful  and  accurate  prose; 
in  speaking,  it  is  the  art  of  delivering  ideas  with  pro- 
priety, elegance,  and  force ;  or,  in  other  words,  it  is 
the  science  of  oratory.  —  Locke. 

Rhetoric  without  logic  is  like  a  tree  with  leaves 
and  blossoms,  but  no  root;  yet  more  an^  taken  with 
rhetoric  than  logic,  because  they  are  caught  with  a 
free  expression,  when  they  understand  not  reason. 
—  Selden. 

The  florid,  elevated,  and  figurative  way  is  for  the 
passions  ;  for  love  and  hatred,  fear  and  anger,  are 
begotten  in  the  soul  by  showing  their  objects  out  of 
their  true  proportion,  either  greater  than  the  life,  or 
less;  but  instruction  is  to  be  given  by  showing  them 
what  they  naturally  are.  A  man  is  to  cheated  into 
passion,  but  reasoned  into  truth.  —  Dryden. 

All  the  art  of  rhetoric,  besides  order  and  clear- 
ness, are  for  nothing  else  but  to  insinuate  wrong 
ideas,  move  the  passions,  and  thereby  mislead  the 
judgment.  —  Locke. 

Rhetoric  is  very  good,  or  stark  naught;  there's 
no  mbdium  in  rhetoric.  —  Selden. 

Riches.  —  The  shortest  road  to  riches  lies 
through  contempt  of  riches.  —  Seneca. 


RIC  230  ROG 

One  cause,  which  is  not  always  observed,  of  the 
insufficiency  of  riches,  is  that  they  very  seldom  make 
their  owner  rich.  —  Johnson. 

Of  all  the  riches  that  we  hug,  of  all  the  pleasures 
we  enjoy,  we  can  carry  no  more  out  of  this  world 
than  out  of  a  dream.  —  Bonnell. 

If  the  search  for  riches  were  sure  to  be  successful, 
though  I  should  become  a  groom  with  a  whip  in  my 
hand  to  get  them,  I  will  do  so.  As  the  search  may 
not  be  successful,  I  will  follow  after  that  which  I 
love.  —  Confucius. 

I  have  a  rich  neighbor  that  is  always  so  busy  that 
he  has  no  leisure  to  laugh;  the  whole  business  of  his 
life  is  to  get  money,  more  money,  that  he  may  still 
get  more.  He  is  still  drudging,  saying  what  Solo- 
mon says,  *'  The  diligent  hand  maketh  rich.**  And 
it  is  true,  indeed ;  but  he  considers  not  that  it  is  not 
in  the  power  of  riches  to  make  a  man  happy;  for  it 
was  wisely  said  by  a  man  of  great  observation  that 
"  there  be  as  many  miseries  beyond  riches  as  on  this 
side  of  them." — Izaak  Walton. 

Riches,  though  they  may  reward  virtues,  yet  they 
cannot  cause  them;  he  is  much  more  noble  who  de- 
serves a  benefit,  than  he  who  bestows  one.  —  Oicen 
FelOiam. 

In  these  times  gain  is  not  only  a  matter  of  greed, 
but  of  ambition.  —  Jouhert, 

Ridicule.  —  Some  men  are,  in  regard  to  ridi- 
cule, like  tin-roofed  buildings  in  regard  to  hail:  all 
that  hits  them  bounds  rattling  off,  not  a  stone  goes 
through.  —  Beecher. 

Rogues.  —  Rogues  are  always  found  out  in  some 
way.  Whoever  is  a  wolf  will  act  as  a  wolf;  that  is 
the  most  certain  of  all  things.  —  La  Fontaine.    . 

Many  a  man  would  have  turned  rogue  if  he  knew 
how.  —  Hazlitt. 


RUI  231  SCA 

Ruin.  —  To  be  ruined  your  own  way  is  some 
comfort.  When  so  many  people  would  ruin  us,  it  is 
a  triumph  over  the  villany  of  the  world  to  be  ruined 
after  one's  own  pattern.  —  Douglas  Jerrold. 


Sacrifice.  —  You  cannot  win  without  sacrifice. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 

What  you  most  repent  of  is  a  lasting  sacrifice 
made  under  an  impulse  of  good-nature.  The  good- 
nature goes,  the  sacrifice  sticks.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Sadness  .  —  Take  my  word  for  it,  the  saddest 
thing  under  the  sky  is  a  soul  incapable  of  sadness. 

—  Countess  de  Gasparin. 

Our  sadness  is  not  sad,  but  our  cheap  joys.  — 
Thoreau. 

Salary.  —  Other  rules  vary;  this  is  the  only 
one  you  will  find  without  exception  :  That  in  this 
world  the  salary  or  reward  is  always  in  the  inverse 
ratio  of  the  duties  performed.  — Sydney  Smith. 

Sarcasm.  —  A  true  sarcasm  is  like  a  sword- 
stick —  it  appears,  at  first  sight,  to  be  much  more 
innocent  than  it  really  is,  till,  all  of  a  sudden,  there 
leaps  something  out  of  it  —  sharp  and  deadly  and 
incisive  —  which  makes  you  tremble  and  recoil. — 
Sydney  Smith. 

Satire.  —  To  lash  the  vices  of  a  guilty  age.  — 
Churchill, 

Thou  shining  supplement  of  public  laws  !  — Young. 
By   satire    kept   in    awe,    shrink   from    ridicule, 
though  not  from  law.  —  Byron. 

When  dunces  are  satiric  I  take  it  for  a  panegyric. 

—  Swift. 

Scandal.  —  Believe  that  story  false  that  ought 
not  to  be  true.  —  Sheridan, 


SCA  232  SCI 

Scandal  has  something  so  piquant,  it  is  a  sort  of 
cayenne  to  the  mind.  —  Byron. 

School.  —  More  is  learned  in  a  public  than  in  a 
private  school  from  emulation :  there  is  the  collision 
of  mind  with  mind,  or  the  radiation  of  many  minds 
pointing  to  one  centre.  —  Johnson. 

Let  the  soldier  be  abroad  if  he  will;  he  cru  do 
nothing  in  this  age.  There  is  another  personage 
abroad,  —  a  person  less  imposing^,  —  in  the  eyes  of 
some,  perhaps,  insignificant.  The  schoolmaster  is 
abroad;  and  I  trust  to  him,  armed  with  his  primer, 
against  the  soldier  in  full  military  array.  — Brougham. 

The  whining  school-boy,  with  his  satchel,  and 
shining  morning  face,  creeping  like  a  snail,  unwill- 
ingly to  school.  —  Shakespeare. 

Science.  —  They  may  say  what  they  like; 
everything  is  organized  matter.  The  tree  is  the 
first  link  of  the  chain,  man  is  the  last.  Men  are 
young,  the  earth  is  old.  Vegetable  and  animal 
chemistry  are  still  in  their  infancy.  Electricity, 
galvanism,  —  what  discoveries  in  a  few  years!  — 
Napoleon. 

Human  science  is  uncertain  guess.  —  Prior. 

Twin-sister  of  natural  and  revealed  religion,  and 
of  heavenly  birth,  science  will  never  belie  her  celes- 
tial origin,  nor  cease  to  sympathize  with  all  that  em- 
anates from  the  same  pure  home.  Human  igno- 
rance and  prejudice  may  for  a  time  seem  to  have 
divorced  what  God  has  joined  together  ;  but  human 
ignorance  and  prejudice  shall  at  length  pass  away, 
and  then  science  and  religion  shall  be  seen  blending 
their  parti-colored  rays  into  one  beautiful  bow  of 
light,  linking  heaven  to  earth  and  earth  to  heaven. 
—  Prof.  Hitchcock. 

Science  is  a  first  rate  piece  of  furniture  for  a 
man's  upper  chamber,  if  he  has  common  sense  on 
the  ground-floor.  But  if  a  man  has  n't  got  plenty 
of  good  common  sense,  the  more  science  he  has  the 
worse  for  his  patient.  —  Holmes. 


SCR  233  SEL 

Scriptures. —  Tl)e  ma jesty  of  Scripture  strikes 
me  with  admiration,  as  the  purity  of  the  Gospel  has 
its  influence  on  my  heart.  Peruse  the  works  of  our 
philosophers;  with  all  their  pomp  of  diction,  how- 
mean,  how  contemptible,  are  they,  compared  with 
the  Scriptures !  Is  it  possible  that  a  book  at  once  so 
simple  and  sublime  should  be  merely  the  work  of 
man?  The  Jewish  authors  were  incapable  of  the 
diction,  and  stranorers  to  the  morality  contained  in 
the  Gospel,  the  marks  of  whose  truths  are  so  striking 
and  inimitable  that  the  inventor  would  be  a  more 
astonishing  character  than  the  hero.  —  Rousseau. 

Secrecy.  —  Thou  hast  betrayed  thy  secret  as  a 
bird  betrays  her  nest,  by  striving  to  conceal  it.  — 
Longfellow. 

Never  confide  your  secrets  to  paper :  it  is  like 
throwing  a  stone  in  the  air,  and  if  you  know  who 
throws  the  stone,  you  do  not  know  where  it  may  fall. 

—  Colder  on. 

People  addicted  to  secrecy  are  so  without  knowing 
why;  they  are  not  so  for  cause,  but  for  secrecy's 
sake.  —  Uazlitt. 

Sect.  —  The  effective  strength  of  sects  is  not 
to  be  ascertained  merely  by  counting  heads.  —  Ma- 
caulay. 

All  sects  are  different,  because  they  come  from 
men  ;  morality  is  everywhere  the  same,  because  it 
comes  from  God.  —  Voltaire. 

Fierce  sectarianism  breeds  fierce  latitudinarianism. 

—  De  Quincey. 

Self-Abnegation.  —  'Tis  much  the  doctrine 
of  the  times  that  men  should  not  please  themselves, 
but  deny  themselves  everything  they  take  delight  in; 
not  look  upon  beauty,  wear  no  good  clothes,  eat  no 
good  meat,  etc.,  which  seems  the  greatest  accusation 
that  can  be  upon  the  Maker  of  all  good  things.  If 
they  are  not  to  be  used  why  did  God  make  them  ? 

—  Selden. 


SEL  234  SEL 

Self-abnegation,  that  rare  virtue  that  good  men 
preach  and  good  women  practice.  —  Holmes. 

Self-Examination.  —  We  neither  know  nor 
judge  ourselves, — others  may  judge,  but  cannot 
know  us,  —  God  alone  judges,  and  knows  too.  — 
Wilkie  Collins. 

It  belongs  to  every  large  nature,  when  it  is  not 
under  the  immediate  power  of  some  strong  unques- 
tioning emotion,  to  suspect  itself,  and  doubt  the  truth 
of  its  own  impressions,  conscious  of  possibilities  be- 
yond its  own  horizon.  —  George  Eliot. 

There  are  two  persons  in  the  world  we  never  see 
as  they  are,  —  one's  self  and  one's  other  self. — 
Arsene  Houssaye. 

Selfishness.  —  Our  infinite  obligations  to 
God  do  not  fill  our  hearts  half  as  much  as  a  petty 
uneasiness  of  our  own ;  nor  his  infinite  perfections 
as  much  as  our  smallest  wants.  —  Hannah  More. 

It  is  astonishing  how  well  men  wear  when  they 
think  of  no  one  but  themselves.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Our  selfishness  is  so  robust  and  many-clutching 
that,  well  encouraged,  it  easily  devours  all  suste- 
nance away  from  our  poor  little  scruples.  —  George 
Eliot. 

There  is  an  ill-breeding  to  which,  whatever  our 
rank  and  nature,  we  are  almost  equally  sensitive,  — 
the  ill-breeding  that  comes  from  want  of  considera- 
tion for  others.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Self-Love.  —  That  household  god,  a  man's 
own  self.  —  Flavel. 

The  greatest  of  all  flatterers  is  self-love  —  Roche- 
foucauld. 

Self-love  exaggerates  both  our  faults  and  our  vir- 
tues. —  Goethe. 

Whatever  discoveries  we  may  have  made  in  the 
rejzions  of  self-love,  there  still  remain  many  unknown 
ands.  — Rochefoucauld. 


SEL  235  SEL 

Selfishness,  if  but  reasonably  tempered  with  wis- 
dom^ is  not  such  an  evil  trait.  —  Ruffini. 

A  prudent  consideration  for  Number  One.  —  Bul- 
wer-Lytton. 

Oh,  the  incomparable  contrivance  of  Nature  who 
has  ordered  all  things  in  so  even  a  method  that 
wherever  she  has  been  less  bountiful  in  her  gifts, 
there  she  makes  it  up  with  a  larger  dose  of  self-love, 
which  supplies  the  former  deficits  and  makes  all 
even.  —  Erasmus. 

The  most  inhibited  sin  in  the  canon.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Ofttimes  nothing  profits  more  than  self-esteem, 
grounded  on  just  and  right.  —  Milton. 

Whose  thoughts  are  centered  on  thyself  alone.  — 
Dryden. 

Self-reliance.  —  The  spirit  of  self-help  is  the 
root  of  all  genuine  growth  in  the  individual;  and, 
exhibited  in  the  lives  of  many,  it  constitutes  the  true 
source  of  national  vigor  and  strength.  Help  from 
without  is  often  enfeebling  in  its  effects,  but  help 
from  within  invariably  invigorates.  Whatever  is 
done  for  men  or  classes,  to  a  certain  extent  takes 
away  the  stimulus  and  necessity  of  doing  for  them- 
selves; and  where  men  are  subjected  to  over-guid- 
ance and  over-government,  the  inevitable  tendency 
is  to  render  them  comparatively  helpless.  —  Samuel. 
Smiles. 

Doubt  whom  you  will,  but  never  yourself.  —  Bovee. 

A  person  under  the  firm  persuasion  that  he  can 
command  resources  virtually  has  them. — Livy. 

The  supreme  fall  of  falls  is  this,  the  first  doubt  of 
one's  self.  —  Countess  de  Gasparin. 

It  's  right  to  trust  in  God;  but  if  you  don't  stand 
to  your  halliards,  your  craft  '11  miss  stays,  and  your 
faith  '11  be  blown  out  of  the  bolt-ropes  in  the  turn  of 
a  uiarlinspike.  —  George  MacDonald. 


SEL  236  SHA 

The  best  lightning-rod  for  your  protection  is  your 
own  spine.  — Emerson. 

Sensibility.  —  The  wild-flower  wreath  of  feel- 
ing, the  sunbeam  of  the  heart.  —  Halleck. 

Sensibility  is  the  power  of  woman.  — Lavater. 

Feeling  loves  a  subdued  light.  —  Madame  Swetch- 
ine. 

Sensitiveness. —  Solomon's  Proverbs,  I 
think,  have  omitted  to  say,  that  as  a  sore  palate 
findeth  grit,  so  an  uneasy  consciousness  heareth  in- 
nuendoes. —  George  Eliot. 

That  chastity  of  honor  which  felt  a  stain  like  a 
wound.  —  Burke. 

Sentiment.  —  Cure  the  drunkard,  heal  the 
insane,  mollify  the  homicide,  civilize  the  Pawnee, 
but  what  lessons  can  be  devised  for  the  debaucher 
of  sentiment  V  —  Emerson. 

Separation.  —  Indifferent  souls  never  part. 
Impassioned  souls  part,  and  return  to  one  another, 
because  they  can  do  no  better.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Shakespeare.  —  There  is  only  one  writer  in 
whom  I  find  something  that  reminds  me  of  the  di- 
rectness of  style  which  is  found  in  the  Bible.  It 
is  Shakespeare.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Far  from  fearing,  as  an  inferior  artist  would  have 
done,  the  juxtaposition  of  the  familiar  and  the  di- 
vine, the  wildest  and  most  fantastic  comedy  with 
the  loftiest  and  gravest  tragedy,  Shakespeare  not 
only  made  such  apparently  discordant  elements  mu- 
tually heighten  and  complete  the  general  effect  which 
he  contemplated,  but  in  so  doing  teaches  us  that, 
in  human  life,  the  sublime  and  ridiculous  are  always 
side  by  side,  and  that  the  source  of  laughter  is 
placed  close  by  the  fountain  of  tears.  —  T.  B.  Shaw. 

Shakespeare  is  a  great  psychologist,  and  whatever 
can  be  known  of  the  heart  of  man  may  be  found 
in  his  plays.  —  Goethe, 


SHA   ■  237  SHA 

In  Shakespeare  one  sentence  begets  the  next  nat- 
urally; the  meaning  is  all  inwoven.  He  goes  on  kin- 
dling like  a  meteor  through   the  dark  atmosphere. 

—  Coleridge. 

No  man  is  too  busy  to  read  Shakespeare.  — Charles 
Buxton. 

Shakespeare's  personages  live  and  move  as  if  they 
had  just  come  from  the  hand  of  God,  with  a  life 
that,  though  manifold,  is  one,  and,  though  complex, 
is  harmonious. — Mazzini. 

Sweetest  Shakespeare,  fancy's  child. —  Milton. 

And  rival  all  but  Shakespeare's  name  below.  — 
Campbell. 

Shakespeare  is  one  of  the  best  means  of  culture 
the  world  possesses.  Whoever  is  at  home  in  his 
pages  is  at  home  everywhere.  —  H.  N.  Hudson. 

His  imperial  muse  tosses  the  creation  like  a  bauble 
from  hand  to  hand  to  embody  any  capricious  thought 
that  is  uppermost  in  her  mind.  The  remotest  spaces 
of  nature  are  visited,  and  the  farthest  sundered 
things  are  brought  together  by  a  subtle  spiritual  con- 
nection. —  Emerson. 

I  think  most  readers  of  Shakespeare  sometimes 
find  themselves  thrown  into  exalted  mental  conditions 
like  those  produced  by  music.  —  0.  W.  Holmes. 

Whatever  other  learning  he  wanted  he  was  mas- 
ter of  two  books  unknown  to  many  profound  readers, 
though  books  which  the  last  conflagration  can  alone 
destroy.     I  mean  the  book  of  Nature  and  of  Man. 

—  Young. 

If  ever  Shakespeare  rants,  it  is  not  when  his 
imagination  is  hurrying  him  along,  but  when  he  is 
hurrying  his  imagination  along.  —  Macaulay. 

It  was  said  of  Euripides,  that  every  verse  was  a 
precept ;  and  it  may  be  said  of  Shakespeare,  that 
from  his  works  may  be  collected  a  system  of  civil 
and  economical  prudence.  —  Johnson. 


SHA  238  SIL 

The  genius  of  Shakespeare  was  an  innate  univer- 
sity. —  Keats. 

Shame.  —  Nature's  hasty  conscience.  —  Maria 
Edgeworth. 

Mortifications  are  often  more  painful  than  real 
calamities.  —  Goldsmith. 

Ship.  —  A  prison  with  the  chance  of  being 
drowned.  —  Johnson. 

Cradle  of  the  rude  imperious  surge.  —  Shakespeare. 

Silence.  —  The  main  reason  why  silence  is  ^=0 
efficacious  an  element  of  repute  is,  first,  because  of 
that  magnification  which  proverbially  belongs  to  the 
unknown;  and,  secondly,  because  silence  provokes 
no  man's  envy,  and  wounds  no  man's  self-love. — 
Bulwer-Lytton. 

Give  thy  thoughts  no  tongue.  —  Shakespeare. 

True  gladness  doth  not  always  speak  ;  joy  bred  and 
born  but  in  the  tongue  is  weak.  —  Ben  Jonson. 

I  hear  other  men's  imperfections,  and  conceal  my 
own.  —  Zeno. 

Silence  in  times  of  suffering  is  the  best.  —  Dryden, 

Silence!  coeval  with  eternity.  —  Pope. 

Silence  is  the  sanctuary  of  prudence. — Balthasar 
Gracian. 

The  unspoken  word  never  does  harm.  —  Kossuth. 

Silence  is  the  understanding  of  fools  and  one  of 
the  virtues  of  the  wise.  —  Bonnard. 

Speech  is  often  barren ;  but  silence  also  does  not 
necessarily  brood  over  a  full  nest.  Your  still  fowl, 
blinking  at  you  without  remark,  may  all  the  while  he 
sitting  on  one  addled  nest-egg;  atid  when  it  takes  to 
cackling,  will  have  nothinfj  to  announce  but  that 
addled  delusion.  —  George  Eliot. 

Silence  gives  consent.  —  Goldsmith. 


SIL  239  SIN 

Silence  is  the  safest  response  for  all  the  contra- 
diction that  arises  from  impertinence,  vulgarity,  or 
envy.  —  Zimmermann. 

Simplicity. — Simplicity  is  doubtless  a  fine 
thing,  but  it  often  appeals  only  to  the  simple.  Art 
is  the  only  passion  of  true  artists.  Palestrina's  music 
resembles  the  music  of  Rossini,  as  the  song  of  the 
sparrow  is  like  the  cavatina  of  the  nightingale. 
Choose.  —  Madame  de  Girardin. 

Simplicity  is  Nature's  first  step,  and  the  last  of 
Art.  —  P.  /.  Bailey. 

The  world  could  not  exist  if  it  were  not  simple. 
This  ground  has  been  tilled  a  thousand  years,  yet  its 
powers  remain  ever  the  same;  a  little  rain,  a  little 
sun,  and  each  spring  it  grows  green  again.  —  Goethe, 

The  fairest  lives,  in  my  opinion,  are  those  which 
regularly  accommodate  themselves  to  the  common 
and  human  model,  without  miracle,  without  extrav- 
agance. —  Montaigne. 

There  is  a  majesty  in  simplicity  which  is  far  above 
the  quaintness  of  wit,  —  Pope. 

Sin. —  Original  sin  is  in  us  like  the  beard:  we  are 
shaved  to-day,  and  look  clean,  and  have  a  smooth 
chin;  to-morrow  our  beard  has  grown  again,  nor 
does  it  cease  growing  while  we  remain  on  earth. 
In  like  manner  original  sin  cannot  be  extirpated 
from  us;  it  springs  up  in  us  as  lone:  as  we  exist; 
Nevertheless,  we  are  bound  to  resist  it  to  our  utmost 
strength,  and  to  cut  it  down  unceasingly.  —  Luther. 

Sin,  in  fancy,  mothers  many  an  ugly  fact.  —  Theo- 
dore Parker. 

There  is  no  immunity  from  the  consequences  of 
sin;  punishment  is  swift  and  sure  to  one  and  all. — 
Hosea  Ballon. 

Every  man  has  his  devilish  minutes.  —  Lavater. 

Death  from  sin  no  power  can  separate.  —  Milton. 


SIN  240  SKI 

Our  sins,  like  to  our  shadows,  when  our  day  is  in 
its  glory,  scarce  appeared.  Towards  our  evening 
how  great  and  monstrous  they  are !  —  Sii'  J.  Suck- 
ling. 

'T  is  the  will  that  makes  the  action  good  or  ill.  — 
Herrick. 

Guilt,  though  it  may  attain  temporal  splendor, 
can  never  confer  real  happiness.  The  evident  con- 
sequences of  our  crimes  long  survive  their  commis- 
sion, and,  like  the  ghosts  of  the  murdered,  forever 
haunt  the  steps  of  the  malefactor.  —  Sir  Waltei-  Scott. 

Some  rise  by  sin,  and  some  by  virtue  fall.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Sin  is  disease,  deformity,  and  weakness.  —  Plato. 
Sin  and  her  shadow  death.  —  Millon. 

If  ye  do  well,  to  your  own  behoof  will  ye  do  it ; 
and  if  ye  do  evil,  against  yourselves  will  ye  do  it. — 
Koran. 

It  is  the  sin  which  we  have  not  committed  which 
seems  the  most  monstrous.  —  Boileau. 

There  are  sins  of  omission  as  well  as  those  of  com- 
mission. —  Madame  Deluzy. 

Sincerity.  —  Sincerity  is  to  speak  as  we  think, 
to  do  as  we  pretend  and  profess,  to  perform  and 
make  good  what  we  promise,  and  really  to  be  what 
we  would  seem  and  appear  to  be.  —  Tillotson. 

The  whole  faculties  of  man  must  be  exerted  in 
order  to  call  forth  noble  energies;  and  he  who  is  not 
earnestly  sincere  lives  in  but  half  his  being,  self- 
mutilated,  self-paralyzed.  —  Coleridge. 

Skepticism. —  Skepticism  is  slow  suicide. — 
Emerson. 

Skill.  —  Nobody,  however  able,  can  gain  the 
very  highest  success,  except  in  one  line.  He  may 
rise  above  others,  but  he  will  fall  below  himself.  — 
Charles  Buxton. 


SKI  241  SLE 

Whatever  maybe  said  about  luck,  it  is  skill  that 
leads  to  fortune.  —  Walter  Scott. 

The  winds  and  waves  are  always  on  the  side  of 
the  ablest  navigators.  —  Gibbon. 

Slander.  — Done  to  death  by  slanderou s  tongues. 
' — Shakespeare. 

Slugs  crawl  and  crawl  over  our  cabbages,  like  the 
world's  slander  over  a  good  name.  You  may  kill 
them,  it  is  true,  but  there  is  the  slime.  —  Douglas 
Jerrold. 

Slander  lives  upon  succession,  forever  housed  where 
it  gets  possession.  —  Shakespeare. 

When  the  absent  are  spoken  of,  some  will  speak 
gold  of  them,  some  silver,  some  iron,  some  lead,  and 
some  always  speak  dirt,  for  they  have  a  natural  at- 
traction towards  what  is  evil,  and  think  it  shows  pen- 
etration in  them.  As  a  cat  watching  for  mice  does 
not  look  up  though  an  elephant  goes  by,  so  are  they 
so  busy  mousing  for  defects,  that  they  let  great  ex- 
cellences pass  them  unnoticed.  I  will  not  say  it  is 
not  Christian  to  make  beads  of  others'  faults,  and  tell 
them  over  every  day;  I  say  it  is  infernal.  If  you 
want  to  know  how  the  devil  feels,  you  do  know  if 
you  are  such  an  one.  — Beecher. 

If  parliament  were  to  consider  the  sporting  with 
reputation  of  as  much  importance  as  sporting  on 
manors,  and  pass  an  act  for  the  preservation  of 
fame  as  well  as  game,  there  are  many  would  thank 
them  for  the  bill.  —  Sheridan. 

Sleep. —  When  one  asked  Alexander  how  he 
could  sleep  so  soundly  and  securely  in  the  midst  of 
danger,  he  told  them  that  Parmenio  watched.  Oh, 
how  securely  may  they  sleep  over  whom  He  watches 
that  never  slumbers  nor  sleeps!  "I  will,"  said  David, 
"  lay  me  down  and  sleep,  for  thou.  Lord,  makest  me 
to  dwell  in  safety."  —  Venning. 

After  life's  fitful  fever  he  sleeps  well.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

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SLE  242  SNE 

Sleep  is  no  servant  of  the  will ;  it  has  caprices  of 
its  own;  when  courted  most,  it  lingers  still;  when 
most  pursued,  'tis  swiftly  gone.  —  Bowring. 

Yet  a  little  sleep,  a  little  slumber,  a  little  folding 
of  the  bands  to  sleep.  —  Bible. 

Heaven  trims  our  lamps  while  we  sleep.  —  Alcott. 

Night's  sepulchre.  —  Byron. 

Sleep  is  pain's  easiest  salve,  and  doth  fulfill  all 
offices  of  death,  except  to  kill.  —  Donne. 

Sleep,  to  the  homeless  thou  art  home;  the  friend- 
less find  in  thee  a  friend.  —  Ebenezer  Elliott. 

The  soul  shares  not  the  body's  rest.  —  Maturin. 

Our  foster  nurse  of  nature  is  repose.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Sloth  .—  Sloth,  if  it  has  prevented  many  crimes, 
has  also  smothered  many  virtues.  —  Cotton. 

Smile.  —  A  woman  has  two  smiles  that  an  angel 
might  envy  —  the  smile  that  accepts  a  lover  afore 
words  are  uttered,  and  the  smile  that  lights  on  the 
first-born  baby.  —  Halihurton. 

Smiles  are  smiles  only  when  the  heart  pulls  the 
wire.  —  Winthrop. 

Those  happiest  smiles  that  played  on  her  ripe 
lips  seemed  not  to  know  what  guests  were  in  her 
eyes,  which  parted  thence  as  pearls  from  diamonds 
dropped.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  smile  that  was  childlike  and  bland.  — -Srgi 
Harte. 

A  soul  only  needs  to  see  a  smile  in  a  white  crape 
bonnet  in  order  to  enter  the  palace  of  dreams.  —  Vic- 
tor  Hugo. 

Sneer. —  The  most  insignificant  people  are  the 
most  apt  to  sneer  at  others.  They  are  safe  from  re- 
prisals, and  have  no  hope  of  rising  in  their  own  es- 
teem but  by  lowering  their  neighbors.    The  severest 


SOC  243  SOC 

critics  are  always  those  who  have  either  never  at- 
tempted, or  who  have  failed  in  original  composition. 
—  Hazlitt. 

Society.  —  If  you  wish  to  appear  agreeable  in 
society,  you  must  consent  to  be  taught  many  things 
which  you  know  already.  —  Lavater. 

Formed  of  two  mighty  tribes,  the  bores  and  bored. 
— Byron. 

Society  undergoes  continual  changes ;  it  is  barba- 
rous, it  is  civilized,  it  is  Christianized,  it  is  rich,  it  is 
scientific;  but  this  change  is  not  amelioration.  For 
everything  that  is  given  something  is  taken.  Soci- 
ety acquires  new  arts,  and  loses  old  instincts.  The 
civilized  man  has  built  a  coach,  but  has  lost  the  use 
of  his  feet ;  he  has  a  fine  Geneva  watch,  but  cannot 
tell  the  hour  by  the  sun.  —  Emerson. 

We  take  our  colors,  chameleon-like,  from  each 
other.  —  Chamfort. 

Society  is  the  union  of  men,  and  not  men  them- 
selves; the  citizen  may  perish,  and  yet  man  may  re- 
main. — Montesquieu. 

There  are  four  varieties  in  society;  the  lovers,  the 
ambitious,  observers,  and  fools.  The  fools  are  the 
happiest.  —  Taine. 

Society  is  the  offspring  of  leisure;  and  to  acquire 
this  forms  the  only  rational  motive  for  accumulating 
wealth,  notwithstanding  the  cant  that  prevails  on  the 
subject  of  labor. — I'uckerman. 

Intercourse  is  the  soul  of  progress.  —  Charles  Bux- 
ton. 

One  ought  to  love  society  if  he  wishes  to  enjoy 
solitude.  It  is  a  social  nature  that  solitude  works 
upon  with  the  most  various  power.  If  one  is  misan- 
thropic, and  betakes  himself  to  loneliness  that  he 
may  get  away  from  hateful  things,  solitude  is  a  silent 
emptiness  to  him.  —  Zimmermann. 


SOC  244  SOL 

The  most  lucrative  commerce  has  ever  been  that 
of  hope,  pleasure,  and  happiness,  the  merchandise  of 
authors,  priests,  and  kings.  —  Madame  Roland. 

The  more  I  see  of  men  the  better  I  think  of  ani- 
mals. —  Tauler. 

Soldier.  —  A  soldier  seeking  the  bubble  rep- 
utation even  in  the  cannon's  mouth.  —  Shakespeare. 

Policy  goes  beyond  strength,  and  contrivance  be- 
fore action;  hence  it  is  that  direction  is  left  to  the 
commander,  execution  to  the  soldier,  who  is  not  to 
ask  Why  V  but  to  do  what  he  is  commanded.  —  Xen- 
ophon. 

Without  a  home  must  the  soldier  go,  a  changeful 
wanderer,  and  can  warm  himself  at  no  home-lit 
hearth.  —  Schiller. 

Soldiers  looked  at  as  they  ought  to  be :  they  are  to 
the  world  as  poppies  to  corn  fields.  —  Douglas  Jerrold. 

Solitude. —  Solitude  is  dangerous  to  reason 
without  being  favorable  to  virtue.  Pleasures  of 
some  sort  are  necessary  to  the  intellectual  as  to  the 
corporal  health,  and  those  who  resist  gayety  will  be 
likely  for  the  most  part  to  fall  a  sacrifice  to  appetite, 
for  the  solicitations  of  sense  are  always  at  hand,  and 
a  dram  to  a  vacant  and  solitary  person  is  a  speedy 
and  seducing  relief.  Remember  that  the  solitary 
person  is  certainly  luxurious,  probably  superstitious, 
and  possibly  mad.  The  mind  stagnates  for  want  of 
employment,  and  is  extinguished,  like  a  candle  in 
foul  air.  — Johnson. 

To  be  exempt  from  the  passions  with  which  others 
are  tormented,  is  the  only  pleasing  solitude.  — Addi- 
son. 

Conversation  enriches  the  understanding,  but  soli- 
tude is  the  school  of  genius.  —  Gibbon. 

Solitude  has  but  one  disadvantage  ;  it  is  apt  to 
give  one  too  high  an  opinion  of  one's  self.  Jn  the 
world  we  are  sure  to  be  often  reminded  of  every 
known  or  supposed  defect  we  may  have.  —  Byron. 


SOL  245  SOR 

Through  the  wide  world  he  only  is  alone  who  lives 
not  for  another.  —  Rogers. 

Solitude  is  the  worst  of  all  companions  when  we 
seek  comfort  and  oblivion.  — Mery. 

Sophistry.  —  The  juggle  of  sophistry  consists, 
for  the  most  part,  in  using  a  word  in  one  sense  in 
all  the  premises,  and  in  another  sense  in  the  conclu- 
sion.—  Coleridge. 

There  is  no  error  which  hath  not  some  appear- 
ance of  probability  resembling  truth,  which,  when 
men  who  study  to  be  singular  find  out,  straining 
reason,  they  then  publish  to  the  world  matter  of 
contention  and  jangling.  —  Sir  W.  Raleigh. 

S  o  r  r  o  "w  .  —  Our  sweetest  songs  are  those  which 
tell  of  saddest  thought.  —  Shelley. 

If  hearty  sorrow  be  a  sufficient  ransom  for  offence, 
I  tender  it  here;  I  do  as  truly  suffer  as  e'er  I  did 
commit.  —  Shakespeare. 

And  weep  the  more,  because  I  weep  in  vain.  — 
Gray. 

The  man  who  has  learned  to  triumph  over  sorrow- 
wears  his  miseries  as  though  they  were  sacred  fillets 
upon  his  brow,  and  nothing  is  so  entirely  admirable 
as  a  man  bravely  wretched.  —  Seneca. 

Sorrow  more  beautiful  than  beauty's  self.  —  Keats. 

The  violence  of  sorrow  is  not  at  the  first  to  be 
striven  withal ;  being,  like  a  mighty  beast,  sooner 
tamed  with  following  than  overthrown  by  with- 
standing.—  Sir  P.  Sidney. 

Never  morning  wore  to  evening,  but  some  heart 
did  break.  —  Tennyson. 

Sorrow  being  the  natural  and  direct  offspring  of 
sin,  that  which  first  brought  sin  into  the  world  must, 
by  necessary  consequence,  bring  in  sorrow  too.  — 
South. 


SOR  246  SOU 

In  extent  sorrow  is  boundless.  It  pours  from  ten 
million  sources,  and  floods  the  world.  But  its  depth 
is  small.     It  drowns  few. —  Charles  Buxton. 

It  is  the  veiled  angel  of  sorrow  who  plucks  away- 
one  thing  and  another  that  bound  us  here  in  ease 
and  security,  and,  in  the  vanishing  of  these  dear  ob- 
jects, indicates  the  true  home  of  our  affections  and 
our  peace.  —  Chapin. 

The  mind  profits  by  the  wreck  of  every  passion, 
and  we  may  measure  our  road  to  wisdom  by  the  sor- 
rows we  have  undergone.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Earth  hath  no  sorrow  that  heaven  cannot  heal.  — 
Moore. 

Sorrow  breaks  seasons,  and  reposing  hours;  makes 
the  night  morning,  and  the  noontide  night.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Sorrow  is  not  evil,  since  it  stimulates  and  puri- 
fies. —  Mazzini. 

Sorrows  must  die  with  the  joys  they  outnumber. 
—  Schiller. 

He  that  hath  so  many  causes  of  joy,  and  so  great, 
is  very  much  in  love  with  sorrow  and  peevishness, 
who  loses  all  these  pleasures,  and  chooses  to  sit 
down  on  his  little  handful  of  thorns.  Such  a  per- 
son is  fit  to  bear  Nero  company  in  his  funeral  sor- 
row for  the  loss  of  one  of  Poppea's  hairs,  or  help  to 
mourn  forLesbia's  sparrow;  and  because  he  loves  it, 
he  deserves  to  starve  in  the  midst  of  plenty,  and  to 
want  comfort  while  he  is  encircled  with  blessings.  — 
Jeremy  Taylor. 

Soul.  —  Had  I  no  other  proof  of  the  immortality 
of  the  soul  than  the  oppression  of  the  just  and  the 
triumph  of  the  wicked  in  this  world,  this  alone  would 
prevent  my  having  the  least  doubt  of  it.  So  shock- 
ing a  discord  amidst  a  general  harmony  of  things 
would  make  me  naturally  look  for  a  cause;  I  should 
say  to  myself  we  do  not  cease  to  exist  with  this  life; 
everything  reassumes  its  order  after  death.  —  Rous- 
seau. 


sou  247  SPE 

What  is  mind?  No  matter.  What  is  matter? 
Never  mind.  What  is  the  soul?  It  is  immaterial. 
—  Hood. 

The  human  soul  is  hospitable,  and  will  entertain 
conflicting  sentiments  and  contradictory  opinions 
with  much  impartiality.  — George  Eliot. 

Our  immortal  souls,  while  righteous,  are  by  God 
himself  beautified  with  the  title  of  his  own  image 
and  similitude.  —  Sir  W.  Raleigh. 

Specialty.  —  No  one  can  exist  in  society  with- 
out some  specialty.  Eighty  years  ago  it  was  only 
necessary  to  be  well  dressed  and  amiable;  to-day  a 
man  of  this  kind  would  be  too  much  like  the  gar- 
90ns  at  the  cafes.  —  Taine. 

Speech. —  Sheridan  once  said  of  some  speech, 
in  his  acute,  sarcastic  way,  that  "it  contained  a 
great  deal  both  of  what  was  new  and  what  was  true: 
but  that  unfortunately  what  was  new  was  not  true, 
and  what  was  true  was  not  new."  —  Hazlitt. 

God  has  given  us  speech  in  order  that  we  may  say 
pleasant  things  to  our  friends,  and  tell  bitter  truths 
to  our  enemies.  —  Henrich  Heine. 

The  common  fluency  of  speech  in  many  men,  and 
most  women,  is  owing  to  a  scarcity  of  matter  and  a 
scarcity  of  words;  for  whoever  is  a  master  of  lan- 
guage and  has  a  mind  full  of  ideas,  will  be  apt 
in  speaking  to  hesitate  upon  the  choice  of  both; 
whereas  common  speakers  have  only  one  set  of  ideas, 
and  one  set  of  words  to  clothe  them  in;  and  these 
are  always  ready  at  the  mouth:  so  people  come 
faster  out  of  a  church  when  it  is  almost  empty,  than 
when  a  crowd  is  at  the  door.  —  Dean  Swift. 

Speech  is  like  cloth  of  Arras,  opened  and  put 
abroad,  whereby  the  imagery  doth  appear  in  figure; 
whereas  in  thoughts  they  lie  but  as  in  packs.  —  J^lu- 
tarch. 


SPE  248  STA 

Never  is  the  deep,  strong  voice  of  man,  or  the  low, 
sweet  voice  of  woman,  finer  than  in  the  earnest  but 
mellow  tones  of  familiar  speech,  richer  than  the  rich- 
est music,  which  are  a  delight  while  they  are  heard, 
which  linger  still  upon  the  ear  in  softened  echoes, 
and  which,  when  they  have  ceased,  come,  long  after, 
back  to  memory,  like  the  murmurs  of  a  distant 
hymn.  —  Henry  Giles. 

Half  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be  averted  if 
they  could  repress  the  speech  they  know  to  be  use- 
less —  nay,  the  speech  they  have  resolved  not  to  ut- 
ter. —  George  Eliot. 

Sport.  —  Dwell  not  too  long  upon  sports  ;  for 
as  they  refresh  a  man  that  is  weary,  so  they  weary 
a  man  that  is  refreshed.  —  Fuller, 

Spring.  —  Stately  Spring !  whose  robe-folds  are 
valleys,  whose  breast-bouquet  is  gardens,  and  whose 
blush  is  a  vernal  evening.  —  Richter. 

Fair  -  handed  Spring  unbosoms  every  grace.  — 
Thomson. 

The  spring,  the  summer,  the  chiding  autumn,  an- 
gry winter,  change  their  wonted  liveries.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Sweet  daughter  of  a  rough  and  stormy  sire,  hoar 
Winter's  blooming  child,  delightful  Spring. — Mrs. 
Barhauld. 

Ye  may  trace  my  step  o'er  the  wakening  earth, 
by  the  winds  which  tell  of  the  violet's  birth.  —  Mrs. 
Hemans. 

Stars.  —  These  preachers  of  beauty,  which  light 
the  world  with  their  admonishing  smile. — Emerson. 

I  am  as  constant  as  the  northern  star  ;  of  whose 
true,  fixed,  and  resting  quality  there  is  no  fellow  in 
the  firmament.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  stars  are  so  far,  —  far  away !  —  L.  E.  Landon. 


STA  249  STU 

Day  hath  put  on  his  jacket,  and  around  his  burn- 
ing bosom  buttoned  it  with  stars.  —  Holmes. 

The  evening  star,  love's  harbinger,  appeared. — 
Milton. 

Statesman.  —  The  great  difference  between 
the  real  statesman  and  the  pretender  is,  that  the  one 
sees  into  the  future,  while  the  other  regards  only 
the  present ;  the  one  lives  by  the  day,  and  acts  on 
expediency;  the  other  acts  on  enduring  principles 
and  for  immortality.  —  Burke. 

The  worth  of  a  state,  in  the  long  run,  is  the  worth 
of  the  individuals  composing  it.  — /.  Stuart  Mill. 

Storms.  —  When  splitting  winds  make  flexible 
the  knees  of  knotted  oaks.  —  Shakespeare. 

Strength.  —  Oh !  it  is  excellent  to  have  a  giant's 
rength;  but 
Shakespeare. 

Study. —  Histories  make  men  wise;  poets, 
witty;  the  mathematics,  subtile;  natural  philosophy, 
deep;  moral,  grave;  logic  and  rhetoric,  able  to  con- 
tend. —  Bacon. 

Whatever  study  tends  neither  directly  nor  indi- 
rectly to  make  us  better  men  and  citizens  is  at  best 
but  a  specious  and  ingenious  sort  of  idleness,  and  the 
knowledge  we  acquire  by  it  only  a  creditable  kind  of 
ignorance,  nothing  more.  —  Bolinghroke. 

There  is  no  one  study  that  is  not  capable  of  de- 
lighting us  after  a  little  application  to  it.  —  Pope. 

They  are  not  the  best  students  who  are  most  de- 
pendent on  books.  What  can  be  got  out  of  them  is 
at  best  only  material:  a  man  must  build  his  house 
for  himself.  —  George  MacDonald. 

The  man  who  has  acquired  the  habit  of  study, 
though  for  only  one  hour  every  day  in  the  year,  and 
keeps  to  the  one  thing  studied  till  it  is  mastered, 
will  be  startled  to  see  the  way  he  has  made  at  the 
end  of  a  twelvemonth.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


STY  250  SUB 

Style.  —  The  style  is  the  man.  —  Buffon, 

As  it  is  a  great  point  of  art,  when  our  matter  re- 
quires it,  to  enlarge  and  veer  out  all  sail,  so  to  take 
it  in  and  contract  it  is  of  no  less  praise  when  the  ar- 
gument doth  ask  it.  —  Ben  Jonson. 

Not  poetry,  but  prose  run  mad.  —  Pope. 

There  is  a  certain  majesty  in  plainness;  as  the 
proclamation  of  a  prince  never  frisks  it  in  tropes  or 
fine  conceits,  in  numerous  and  well-turned  periods, 
but  commands  in  sober  natural  expressions.  —  South. 

In  the  present  day  our  literary  masonry  is  well 
done,  but  our  architecture  is  poor.  —  Joubert. 

Perhaps  that  is  nearly  the  perfection  of  good  writ- 
ing which  is  original,  but  whose  truth  alone  pre- 
vents the  reader  from  suspecting  that  it  is  so;  and 
which  effects  that  for  knowledge  which  the  lense  ef- 
fects for  the  sunbeam,  when  it  condenses  its  bright- 
ness in  order  to  increase  its  force.  —  Colton. 

A  temperate  style  is  alone  classical.  — Joubert, 

Obscurity  and  affectation  are  the  two  great  faults 
of  style.  Obscurity  of  expression  generally  springs 
from  confusion  of  ideas;  and  the  same  wish  to  daz- 
zle, at  any  cost,  which  produces  affectation  in  the 
manner  of  a  writer,  is  likely  to  produce  sophistry  in 
his  reasoning.  —  Macaulay. 

Style  is  the  gossamer  on  which  the  seeds  of  truth 
float  through  the  world.  —  Bancroft. 

The  lively  phraseology  of  Montesquieu  was  the 
result  of  long  meditation.  His  words,  as  light  as 
wings,  bear  on  them  grave  reflections.  —  Joubert. 

Subordination.  —  The  usual  way  that  men 
adopt  to  appease  the  wrath  of  those  whom  they  have 
offended,  when  they  are  at  their  mercy,  is  humble 
submission;  whereas  a  bold  front,  a  firm  and  reso- 
lute bearing,  —  means  the  very  opposite,  — have  been 
at  times  equally  successful.  —  Montaigne. 


SUB  251  sue 

Reverences  stand  in  awe  of  yourself.  —  Sydney 
Smith. 

He  who  reigns  within  himself,  and  rules  passions, 
desires,  and  fears,  is  more  than  a  king.  —  Milton. 

Success.  —  It  is  a  mistake  to  suppose  that  men 
succeed  through  success;  they  much  oftener  succeed 
through  failure.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

From  mere  success  nothing  can  be  concluded  in 
favor  of  any  nation  upon  whom  it  is  bestowed.  — 
A  tterhury. 

He  that  would  relish  success  to  purpose  should 
keep  his  passion  cool,  and  his  expectation  low.  — 
Jeremy  Collier. 

The  road  to  success  is  not  to  be  run  upon  by  seven- 
leagued  boots.  Step  by  step,  little  by  little,  bit  by 
bit,  —  that  is  the  way  to  wealth,  that  is  the  way  to 
wisdom,  that  is  the  way  to  glory.  Pounds  are  the 
sons,  not  of  pounds,  but  of  pence.  —  Charles  Bux- 
ton. 

The  talent  of  success  is  nothing  more  than  doing 
what  you  can  do  well;  and  doing  well  whatever  you 
do,  without  a  thought  of  fame.  —  Longfellow. 

Nothing  can  seem  foul  to  those  that  win.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

All  the  proud  virtue  of  this  vaunting  world  fawns 
on  success  and  power,  however  acquired. —  Thom- 
son. 

A  successful  career  has  been  full  of  blunders.  — 
Charles  Buxton. 

The  man  who  succeeds  above  his  fellows  is  the 
one  who,  early  in  life,  clearly  discerns  his  object,  and 
towards  that  object  habitually  directs  his  powers. 
Thus,  indeed,  even  genius  itself  is  but  fine  obser- 
vation strengthened  by  fixity  of  purpose.  Every 
man  who  observes  vigilantly  and  resolves  steadfastly 
grows  unconsciously  into  genius.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


sue  252  SUN 

Success  soon  palls.  The  joyous  time  is  when  the 
breeze  first  strikes  your  sails,  and  the  waters  rustle 
under  your  bow.-;.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Success  at  first  doth  many  times  undo  men  at 
last. —  Venning. 

Suicide.  —  Suicide  itself,  that  fearful  abuse  of 
the  dominion  of  the  soul  over  the  body,  is  a  strong 
proof  of  the  distinction  of  their  destinies.  Can  the 
power  that  kills  be  the  same  that  is  killed?  Must  it 
not  necessarily  be  something  superior  and  surviving? 
The  act  of  the  soul,  which  in  that  fat^d  instant  is  in 
one  sense  so  great  nn  act  of  power,  can  it  at  the  same 
time  be  the  act  of  its  own  annihilation?  The  will 
kills  the  body,  but  who  kills  the  will? — Auguste 
Nicolas. 

Those  men  who  destroy  a  healthful  constitution  of 
body  by  intemperance  as  manifestly  kill  themselves 
as  those  who  hang,  or  poison,  or  drown  themselves. 

—  Sherlock. 

He  who,  superior  to  the  checks  of  nature,  dares 
make  his  life  the  victim  of  his  reason,  does  in  some 
sort  that  reason  deify,  and  takes  a  flight  at  heaven. 

—  Young. 

Summer.  —  Child  of  the  sun,  refulgent  Summier 
comes. —  Thomson. 

Beneath  the  Winter's  snow  lie  germs  of  summer 
flowers. —  Whiltier. 

Sun .  — The  glorious  sun  stays  in  his  course,  and 
plays  the  alchemist,  turning  with  the  splendor  of  his 
precious  eyes  the  meagre,  cloddy  earth  to  glittering 
gold.  —  Shakespeare, 

The  downward  sun  looks  out  effulgent  from  amid 
the  flash  of  broken  clouds.  —  Thomson. 

Sunday.  —  If  the  Sunday  had  not  been  observed 
as  a  day  of  rest  during  the  last  three  centuries,  I 
have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  we  should  have 
been  at  this  moment  a  poorer  pe«ple  and  less  civil- 
ized. —  Macaulay. 


SUN  253  SUE 

Oh,  what  a  blessing  is  Sunday,  interposed  between 
the  waves  of  worldly  business  like  the  divine  path  of 
the  Israelites  through  Jordan  !  There  is  nothing  in 
which  I  would  advise  you  to  be  more  strictly  consci- 
entious than  in  keeping  the  Sabbath-day  holy.  I 
can  truly  declare  that  to  me  the  Sabbath  has  been  in- 
valuable. —  W.  Wilherforce. 

Superstition.  —  A  peasant  can  no  more  help 
believing  in  a  traditional  superstition  than  a  horse 
can  help  trembling  when  he  sees  a  camel.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Religion  worships  God,  while  superstition  profanes 
that  worship.  —  Seneca. 

Every  inordination  of  religion  that  is  not  in  defect 
is  properly  called  superstition.  — Jeremy  Taylor. 

The  child  taught  to  believe  any  occurrence  a  good 
or  evil  omen,  or  any  day  of  the  week  lucky,  hath 
a  wide  inroad  made  upon  the  soundness  of  his  un- 
derstanding. —  Watts. 

Superstition  is  the  only  religion  of  which  base 
souls  are  capable.  — Jouhert. 

It  is  of  such  stuff  that  superstitions  are  commonly 
made ;  an  intense  feeling  about  ourselves  which 
makes  the  evening  star  shine  at  us  with  a  threat, 
and  the  blessing  of  a  beggar  encourage  us.  And  su- 
perstitions carry  consequences  which  often  verify 
their  hope  or  their  foreboding.  —  George  Eliot. 

We  are  all  tattooed  in  our  cradles  with  the  beliefs 
of  our  tribe ;  the  record  may  seem  superficial,  but 
it  is  indelible.  You  cannot  educate  a  man  wholly 
out  of  the  superstitious  fears  which  were  implanted 
in  his  imagination,  no  matter  how  utterly  his  reason 
may  reject  them.  — Holmes. 

Surety.  —  He  who  is  surety  is  never  sure. 
Take  advice,  and  never  be  security  for  more  than 
you  are  quite  willing  to  lose.  Remember  the  words 
of  the  wise  man  .  "  He  that  is  surety  for  a  stranger 
shall  smart  for  it;  and  he  that  hateth  suretyship  is 
sure."  —  Spurgeon. 


I:     ■ 


SUR  254  SYM 

Surfeit.  —  They  are  sick,  that  surfeit  with  too 
much,  as  they  that  starve  with  nothing.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

Satiety  comes  of  riches,  and  contumaciousness  of 
satiety.  —  Solon. 

Suspicion.  —  To  be  suspicious  is  to  invite 
treachery.  —  Voltaire. 

There  is  no  rule  more  invariable  than  that  we  are 
paid  for  our  suspicions  by  finding  what  we  suspect. 
—  Thoreau. 

Suspicion  has  it  dupes,  as  well  as  credulity.  — 
Madame  Swetchine. 

Don't  seem  to  be  on  the  lookout  for  crows,  else 
you  '11  set  other  people  watching.  —  George  Eliot. 

Sympathy.  —  Surely,  surely,  the  only  true 
knowledge  of  our  fellow-man  is  that  which  enables 
us  to  feel  with  him  —  which  gives  us  a  fine  ear  for 
the  heart-pulses  that  are  beating  under  the  mere 
clothes  of  circumstance  and  opinion.  —  George  Eliot. 

Next  to  love,  sympathy  is  the  divinest  passion  of 
the  human  heart.  —  Burke. 

Outward  things  don't  give,  they  draw  out.  You 
find  in  them  what  you  bring  to  them.  A  cathedral 
makes  only  the  devotional  feel  devotional.  Scenery 
refines  only  the  fine-minded.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Of  all  the  virtues  necessary  to  the  completion  of 
the  perfect  man,  there  is  none  to  be  more  delicately 
implied  and  less  ostentatiously  vaunted  than  that  of 
exquisite  feeling  or  universal  benevolence.  —  Bul- 
wer-Lyiton. 

I  would  go  fifty  miles  on  foot  to  kiss  the  hand  of 
that  man  whose  generous  heart  will  give  up  the  reins 
of  his  imagination  into  his  author's  hands;  be 
pleased,  he  knows  not  why,  and  cares  not  where- 
fore. —  Slerne. 


TAG  255  TAL 


T. 


Tact. —  A  tact  which  surpassed  the  tact  of  her 
sex  as  much  as  the  tact  of  her  sex  surpasses  the  tact 
of  ours.  —  Macaulay. 

Talent.  —  It  is  adverse  to  talent  to  be  consorted 
and  trained  up  with  inferior  minds  or  inferior  com- 
panions, however  high  they  may  rank.  The  foal  of 
the  racer  neither  finds  out  his  speed,  nor  calls  out  his 
powers,  if  pastured  out  with  the  common  herd  that 
are  destined  for  the  collar  and  the  yoke.  —  Colton. 

Whatever  you  are  from  nature,  keep  to  it ;  never 
desert  your  own  line  of  talent.  Be  what  nature  in- 
tended you  for,  and  you  will  succeed ;  be  anything 
else,  and  you  will  be  ten  thousand  times  worse  than 
nothing !  —  Sydney  Smith. 

Gross  and  vulgar  minds  will  always  pay  a  higher 
respect  to  wealth  than  to  talent ;  for  Avealth,  although 
it  be  a  far  less  efficient  source  of  power  than  talent, 
happens  to  be  far  more  intelligible.  —  Colton. 

_  As  to  great  and  commanding  talents,  they  are  the 
gift  of  Providence  in  some  way  unknown  to  us.  They 
rise  where  they  are  least  expected.  They  fail  when 
everything  seems  disposed  to  produce  them,  or  at 
least  to  call  them  forth.  — Burke. 

Talent  is  the  capacity  of  doing  anything  that  de- 
pends on  application  and  industry,  and  it  is  a  volun- 
tary power,  while  genius  is  involuntary.  — Hazlitt. 

Talent,  lying  in  the  understanding,  is  often  in- 
herited ;  genius,  being  the  action  of  reason  or  imag- 
ination, rarely  or  never.  —  Coleridge. 

It  always  seemed  to  me  a  sort  of  clever  stupidity 
only  to  have  one  sort  of  talent,  — almost  like  a  car- 
rier-pigeon. —  George  Eliot. 


TAL  256  TEA 

Talking.  —  I  know  a  lady  that  loves  talking  so 
incessantly,  she  won't  give  an  echo  fair  play;  she  has 
that  everlasting  rotation  of  tongue,  that  an  echo  must 
wait  till  she  dies,  before  it  can  catch  her  last  words! 
—  Congreve. 

Talkers  are  no  good  doers.  —  Shakespeare. 

When  I  think  of  talking,  it  is  of  course  with  a 
woman.  For  talking  at  its  best  being  an  inspiration, 
it  wants  a  corresponding  divine  quality  of  receptive- 
ness,  and  where  will  you  find  this  but  in  woman?  — 
Holmes. 

Who  think  too  little  and  who  talk  too  much.  — 
Dryden. 

They  talk  most  who  have  the  least  to  say.  —  Prior. 

Taste.  —  Taste  is  the  power  of  relishing  or  re- 
jecting whatever  is  offered  for  the  entertainment  of 
the  imagination.  —  Goldsmith. 

There  are  some  readers  who  have  never  read  an 
essay  on  taste;  and  if  they  take  my  advice  they 
never  will;  for  they  can  no  more  improve  their  taste 
by  so  doing  than  they  could  improve  their  appetite 
or  digestion  by  studying  a  cookery-book.  —  Southey. 

Those  internal  powers,  active  and  strong,  and  feel- 
ingly alive  to  each  fine  impulse.  —  Akenside. 

All  our  tastes  are  but  reminiscences.  —  Lamarline. 

Teaching.  —  Count  it  one  of  the  highest  vir- 
tues upon  earth  to  educate  faithfully  the  children  of 
others,  which  so  few,  and  scarcely  any,  do  by  their 
own.  — Luther. 

The  best  teacher  is  the  one  who  suggests  rather 
than  dogmatizes,  and  inspires  his  listener  with  the 
wish  to  teach  himself.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Tears.  —  The  overflow  of  a  softened  heart. — 
Madame  Swetchine. 

Weeping  may  endure  for  a  night,  but  joy  cometh 
in  the  morning.  —  Bible. 


TEA  257  TEA 

In  woman's  eye  the  unanswerable  tear.  —  Byron. 

Blest  tears  of  soul-felt  penitence.  —  Moore. 

God  washes  the  eyes  by  tears  until  they  can  be- 
hold the  invisible  land  where  tears  shall  come  no 
more.  O  love!  O  affliction!  ye  are  the  guides  that 
show  us  the  way  through  the  great  airy  space  where 
our  loved  ones  walked;  and,  as  hounds  easily  fol- 
low the  scent  before  the  dew  be  risen,  so  God  teaches 
us,  while  yet  our  sorrow  is  wet,  to  follow  on  and  find 
our  dear  ones  in  heaven.  —  Beecker. 

The  kind  oblation  of  a  falling  tear.  —  Dryden. 

A  penitent's  tear  is  an  undeniable  ambassador, 
and  never  returns  from  the  throne  of  grace  unsatis- 
fied. —  Spencer. 

Fate  and  the  dooming  gods  are  deaf  to  tears.  — 
Dryden. 

We  praise  the  dramatic  poet  who  possesses  the 
art  of  drawing  tears,  a  power  which  he  has  in  com- 
mon with  the  meanest  onion.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Her  tears  her  only  eloquence.  —  Rogers. 

Eye-offending  brine.  —  Shakespeare. 

The  tears  which  flow,  and  the  honors  that  are 
paid,  when  the  founders  of  the  republic  die,  give 
hope  that  the  republic  itself  may  be  immortal.  — 
Daniel  Webster. 

All  my  mother  came  into  mine  eyes,  and  gave  me 
up  to  tears,  —  Shakespeare. 

The  tear  that  is  wiped  with  a  little  address  may 
be  followed,  perhaps,  by  a  smile.  —  Cowper. 

Virtue  is  the  daughter  of  Religion.  Her  sole 
treasure  is  her  tears. — Madame  Swetchine. 

Nothing  dries  sooner  than  a  tear.  — George  Her- 
bert. 

My  plenteous  joys,  wanton  in  fullness,  seek  to  hide 
themselves  in  drops  of  sorrow.  —  Shakespeare. 
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TEA  258  TEM 

Bright  as  young  diamonds  in  their  infant  dew.  — 
Dryden. 

Tears  are  sometimes  the  happiest  smiles  of  love. 

—  Stendhal. 

Tediousness.  —  The  sin  of  excessive  length. 

—  Shirley 

Life  is  as  tedious  as  a  twice-told  tale,  vexing  the 
dull  ear  of  a  drowsy  man.  —  Shakespeare. 

Teeth.  —  Teeth  like  falling  snow  for  white.  — 
Cowley. 

Such  a  pearly  row  of  teeth  that  sovereignty  would 
have  pawned  her  jewels  for  them.  —  Sterne. 

Temperance.  — Temperance  puts  wood  on 
the  fire,  meal  in  the  barrel,  flour  in  the  tub,  money 
in  the  purse,  credit  in  the  country,  contentment  in 
the  bouse,  clothes  on  the  back,  and  vigor  in  the  body. 

—  Franklin. 

I  consider  the  temperance  cause  the  foundation  of 
all  social  and  political  reform.  —  Cobden. 

If  temperance  prevails,  then  education  can  pre- 
vail; if  temperance  fails,  then  education  must  fail. 

—  Horace  Mann. 

Temperance  to  be  a  virtue  must  be  free  and  not 
forced.  Virtue  may  be  defended,  as  vice  may  be 
withstood,  by  a  statute,  but  no  virtue  is  or  can  be 
created  by  a  law,  any  more  than  by  a  battering  ram 
a  temple  or  obelisk  can  be  reared.  —  Bartol. 

If  you  wish  to  keep  the  mind  clear  and  the  body 
healthy,  abstain  from  all  fermented  liquors.  —  Syd- 
ney Smith. 

Use,  do  not  abuse;  neither  abstinence  nor  excess 
ever  renders  man  happy.  —  Voltaire. 

He  who  would  keep  himself  to  himself  should  imi- 
tate the  dumb  animals,  and  drink  water.  —  Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

Temptation. — No  man  is  matriculated  to 
the  art  of  life  till  he  has  been  well  tempted.  — 
George  Eliot. 


TEM  259  THE 

Temptation  is  a  fearful  word.  It  indicates  the 
beginning  of  a  possible  series  of  infinite  evils.  It  is 
the  ringing  of  an  alarm  bell,  whose  melancholy 
sounds  may  reverberate  through  eternity.  Like  the 
sudden,  sharp  cry  of  "Fire!"  under  our  windows 
by  night,  it  should  rouse  us  to  instantaneous  action, 
and  brace  every  muscle  to  its  highest  tension.  — 
Horace  Mann. 

Most  confidence  has  still  most  cause  to  doubt.  — 
Dryden, 

It  is  a  most  fearful  fact  to  think  of,  that  in  every 
heart  there  is  some  secret  spring  that  would  be  weak 
at  the  touch  of  temptation,  and  that  is  liable  to  be 
assailed.  Fearful,  and  yet  salutary  to  think  of,  for 
the  thought  may  serve  to  keep  our  moral  nature 
braced.  It  warns  us  that  we  can  never  stand  at 
ease,  or  lie  down  in  the  field  of  life,  without  senti- 
nels of  watchfulness  and  camp-fires  of  prayer.  — 
Chapin. 

Love  cries  victory  when  the  tears  of  a  woman  be- 
come the  sole  defense  of  her  virtue.  —  La  Fontaine. 

When  devils  will  their  blackest  sins  put  on,  they 
do  suggest  at  first  with  heavenly  shows.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

The  devil  tempts  us  not:  it  is  we  tempt  him,  beck- 
oning his  skill  with  opportunity.  —  George  Eliot. 

Better  shun  the  bait  than  struggle  in  the  snare.  — 
Dryden. 

There  are  times  when  it  would  seem  as  if  God 
fished  with  a  line,  and  the  devil  with  a  net.  —  Ma- 
dame Swetchine. 

Tenderness.  —  When  death,  the  great  recon- 
ciler, has  come,  it  is  never  our  tenderness  that  we 
repent  of,  but  our  severity.  —  George  Elliot. 

Theatre.  — A  man  who  enters  the  theatre  is 
immediately  struck  with  the  view  of  so  great  a  mul- 
titude, participating  of  one  common  amusement ;  and 
experiences,  from  their  very  aspect,  a  superior  sensi- 


THE  260  THO 

bility  or  disposition  of  being  affected  with  every  sen- 
timent which  he  shares  with  his  fellow-creatures.  — 
Hume. 

The  theatre  has  often  been  at  variance  with  the 
pulpit;  they  ought  not  to  quarrel.  How  much  it  is 
to  be  wished  that  the  celebration  of  nature  and  of 
God  were  intrusted  to  none  but  men  of  noble  minds ! 
—  Goethe. 

Theories. — Most  men  take  least  notice  of  what 
is  plain,  as  if  that  were  of  no  use;  but  puzzle  their 
thoughts,  and  lose  themselves  in  those  vast  depths 
and  abysses  which  no  human  understanding  can 
fathom.  —  Sherlock. 

Metaphysicians  can  unsettle  things,  but  they  can 
erect  nothing.  They  can  pull  down  a  church,  but 
they  cannot  build  a  hovel.  —  Cecil. 

Thought.  —  I  have  asked  several  men  what 
passes  in  their  minds  when  they  are  thinking,  and  I 
could  never  find  any  man  who  could  think  for  two 
minutes  together.  Everybody  has  seemed  to  admit 
that  it  was  a  perpetual  deviation  from  a  particular 
path,  and  a  perpetual  return  to  it;  which,  imperfect 
as  the  operation  is,  is  the  only  method  in  which  we 
can  operate  with  our  minds  to  carry  on  any  process 
of  thought.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

A  delicate  thought  is  a  flower  of  the  mind. — 
Rollin. 

Earnest  men  never  think  in  vain  though  their 
thoughts  may  be  errors.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Though  an  inheritance  of  acres  maybe  bequeathed, 
an  inheritance  of  knowledge  and  wisdom  cannot. 
The  wealthy  man  may  pay  others  for  doing  his  work 
for  him,  but  it  is  impossible  to  get  his  thinking  done 
for  him  by  another,  or  to  purchase  any  kind  of  self- 
culture.  —  Samuel  Smiles. 

Thoughts  shut  up  want  air,  and  spoil  like  bales 
unopened  to  the  sun.  — Young. 


THO  261  TIM 

Good  thoughts  are  blessed  guests,  and  should  be 
heartily  welcomed,  well  fed,  and  much  sought  after. 
Like  rose  leaves,  they  give  out  a  sweet  smell  if  laid 
up  in  the  jar  of  memory.  —  Spurgeon. 

Thought  is  invisible  nature  —  nature  is  invisible 
thought.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Ingenious  philosophers  tell  you,  perhaps,  that  the 
great  work  of  the  steam-engine  is  to  create  leisure  for 
mankind.  Do  not  believe  them,  it  only  creates  a 
vacuum  for  eager  thought  to  rush  in.  —  George  Eliot. 

Wherever  a  great  mind  utters  its  thoughts,  —  there 
is  Golgotha.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

"  Give  me,"  said  Herder  to  his  son,  as  he  lay  in 
the  parched  weariness  of  his  last  illness,  "  give  me 
a  great  thought,  that  I  may  quicken  myself  with  it." 

—  Richter. 

You  shall  see  them  on  a  beautiful  quarto  page, 
where  a  neat  rivulet  of  text  shall  meander  through  a 
meadow  of  margin.  —  Sheridan. 

Fully  to  understand  a  grand  and  beautiful  thought 
requires,  perhaps,  as  much  time  as  to  conceive  it.  — 
Joubert. 

Many  men's  thoughts  are  not  acorns,  but  merely 
pebbles.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

A  vivid  thought  brings  the  power  to  paint  it  ;  and 
in  proportion  to  the  depth  of  its  source  is  the  force  of 
its  projection.  —  Emerson. 

Threats.  — Those  that  are  the  loudest  in  their 
threats  are  the  weakest  in  the  execution  of  them.  — 
Collon. 

It  makes  a  great  difference  in  the  force  of  a  sen- 
tence whether  a  man  be  behind  it  or  no.  —  Emerson, 

Time.  —  Time's  abyss,  the  common  grave  of  all. 

—  Dryden. 

Come  what  come  may,  time  and  the  hour  run 
through  the  roughest  day.  —  Shakespeare. 


TIM  262  TEA 

Time  makes  more  converts  than  reason.  —  Thomas 
Paine. 

Time  stoops  to  no  man's  lure.  —  Swinhurne. 

Time  is  the  wisest  councillor.  —  Pericles. 

Time  is  a  wave  which  never  murmurs,  because 
there  is  no  obstacle  to  its  flow.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Time  hath  often  cured  the  wound  which  reason 
failed  to  heal.  —  Seneca. 

The  slow  sweet  hours  that  bring  us  all  things  good. 

—  Tennyson. 

Part  with  it  as  with  money,  sparing;  pay  no  mo- 
ment but  in  purchase  of  its  worth;  and  what  its 
worth !  ask  death- beds,  they  can  tell.  —  Young. 

The  crutch  of  Time  accomplishes  more  than  the 
club  of  Hercules.  —  Balthaser  Gracian. 

Time  is  the  shower  of  Danas;  each  drop  is  golden. 

—  Madame  Swetchine. 

Title. — How  impious  is  the  title  of  "sacred 
majesty  "  applied  to  a  worm,  who,  in  the  midst  of 
his  splendor,  is  crumbling  into  dust!  —  Thomas 
Paine. 

The  three  highest  titles  that  can  be  given  a  man 
are  those  of  martyr,  hero,  saint.  —  Gladstone. 

Toleration.  —  The  responsibility  of  tolerance 
lies  with  those  who  have  the  wider  vision.  —  George 
Eliot. 

Error  tolerates,  truth  condemns.  —  Fernan  Ca- 
hallero. 

Toleration  is  the  best  religion.  —  Victor  Hugo. 

Tongue.  —  When  we  advance  a  little  into  life, 
we  find  that  the  tongue  of  man  creates  nearly  all  the 
mischief  of  the  world.  —  Paxton  Hood. 

Travel.  —  Rather  see  the  wonders  of  the  Avorld 
abroad,  than,  living  dully  sluggardized  at  home  wear 
out  thy  youth  with  shapeless  idleness.  —  Shake- 
speare. 


TRA  263  TRI 

Of  dead  kingdoms  I  recall  the  soul,  sitting  amid 
their  ruins.  —  N.  P.  Willis. 

The  use  of  traveling  is  to  regulate  imagination 
by  reality,  and,  instead  of  thinking  how  things  may 
be,  to  see  them  as  they  are.  —  Johnson. 

To  see  the  world  is  to  judge  the  judges.  —  Jouhert. 

The  bee,  though  it  finds  every  rose  has  a  thorn, 
comes  back  loaded  with  honey  from  his  rambles, 
and  why  should  not  other  tourists  do  the  same.  — 
Halihurton. 

Treason.  —  Treason  pleases,  but  not  the  traitor. 

—  Cervantes. 

The  man  was  noble ;  but  with  his  last  attempt  he 
wiped  it  out;  betrayed  his  country;  and  his  name 
remains  to  the  ensuing  age  abhorred.  —  Shakespeare. 

Trifles.  —  A  snapper-up  of  unconsidered  trifles. 

—  Shakespeare. 

We  are  not  only  pleased  but  turned  by  a  feather. 
The  history  of  a  man  is  a  calendar  of  straws.  If  the 
nose  of  Cleopatra  had  been  shorter,  said  Pascal,  in 
his  brilliant  way,  Antony  might  have  kept  the  world. 

—  Willmotl. 

A  drop  a  water  is  as  powerful  as  a  thunderbolt.  — 

Huxley. 

Riches  may  enable  us  to  confer  favors;  but  to  con- 
fer them  with  propriety  and  with  grace  requires  a 
something  that  riches  cannot  give  :  even  trifles  may 
be  so  bestowed  as  to  cease  to  be  trifles.  The  citizens 
of  Megara  offered  the  freedom  of  their  city  to  Alex- 
ander; such  an  offer  excited  a  smile  in  the  counte- 
nance of  him  who  had  concjuered  the  world ;  but  he 
received  this  tribute  of  their  respect  with  compla- 
cency on  being  informed  that  they  had  never  offered 
it  to  any  but  to  Hercules  and  himself.  —  Colton. 

There  is  a  kind  of  latent  omniscience  not  only  in 
every  man  but  in  every  particle.  —  Emerson. 


TRI  264  TRU 

It  is  in  those  acts  called  trivialities  that  the  seeds 
of  joy  are  forever  wasted,  until  men  and  women  look 
round  with  haggard  faces  at  the  devastation  their  own 
•waste  has  made,  and  say,  the  earth  bears  no  harvest 
of  sweetness  —  calling  their  denial  knowledge.  — 
George  Eliot. 

The  chains  which  cramp  us  most  are  those  which 
"weigh  on  us  least.  —  Madame  Swetchine. 

Little  things  console  us,  because  little  things  afflict 
us.  —  Pascal. 

Trouble.  —  Annoyance  is  man's  leaven;  the 
element  of  movement,  without  which  we  would  grow 
mouldy.  —  Feuchterslehen. 

Truth.  —  Veracity  is  a  plant  of  Paradise,  and 
the  seeds  have  never  flourished  beyond  the  walls.  — 
George  Eliot. 

Nothing  so  beautiful  as  truth.  —  Des  Cartes. 

All  high  truth  is  poetry.  Take  the  results  of  sci- 
ence: they  glow  with  beauty,  cold  and  hard  as  are 
the  methods  of  reaching  them.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Truth  never  turns  to  rebuke  falsehood;  her  own 
straightforwardness  is  the  severest  correction. — 
Thoreau. 

Whenever  you  look  at  human  nature  in  masses, 
you  find  every  truth  met  by  a  counter  truth,  and 
both  equally  true.  —  Charles  Buxton,. 

Truth  need  not  always  be  embodied ;  enough  if  it 
hovers  around  like  a  spiritual  essence,  which  gives 
one  peace,  and  tills  the  atmosphere  with  a  solemn 
sweetness  like  harmonious  music  of  bells.  —  Goethe. 

Dare  to  be  true ;  nothing  can  need  a  lie.  —  George 
Herbert. 

We  must  never  throw  away  a  bushel  of  truth  be- 
cause it  happens  to  contain  a  few  grains  of  chaff; 
on  the  contrary,  we  may  sometimes  profitably  receive 
a  bushel  of  chaff  for  the  few  grains  of  truth  it  may 
contain.  —  Dean  Stanley. 


TRU  265  TRU 

The  first  great  work  is  tli|t  yourself  may  to  your- 
self be  true.  —  Roscommon.  * 

In  troubled  water  you  can  scarce  see  your  face,  or 
see  it  very  little,  till  the  water  be  quiet  and  stand 
still:  so  in  troubled  times  you  can  see  little  truth; 
when  times  are  quiet  and  settled,  then  truth  appears. 
—  Selden. 

Men  are  as  cold  as  ice  to  the  truth,  hot  as  fire  to 
falsehood. — La  Fontaine. 

The  way  of  truth  is  like  a  great  road.  It  is  not 
difficult  to  know  it.  The  evil  is  only  that  men  will 
not  seek  it.  Do  you  go  home  and  search  for  it.  — 
Mencius. 

Speaking  truth  is  like  writing  fair,  and  comes  only 
by  practice;  it  is  less  a  matter  of  will  than  of  habit; 
and  I  doubt  if  any  occasion  can  be  trivial  which  per- 
mits the  practice  and  formation  of  such  a  habit.  — 
Ruskin. 

Forgetting  that  the  only  eternal  part  for  man  to 
act  is  man,  and  that  the  only  immutable  greatness  is 
truth.  —  Lamartine. 

Truth  takes  the  stamp  of  the  souls  it  enters.  It  is 
rigorous  and  rough  in  arid  souls,  but  tempers  and 
softens  itself  in  loving  natures.  —  Jouhert. 

Truth  severe,  by  fairy  fiction  drest.  —  Gray. 

The  only  amaranthine  flower  on  earth  is  virtue; 
the  only  lasting  treasure,  truth.  —  Cowper. 

Blunt  truths  make  more  mischief  than  nice  false- 
hoods do.  —  Pope. 

Truth  has  rough  flavors  if  we  bite  through. — 
George  Eliot. 

Truth  is  a  torch,  but  one  of  enormous  size;  so  that 
we  shnk  past  it  in  rather  a  bhnking  fashion  for  fear 
it  should  burn  us.  —  Goethe. 

All  truths  are  not  to  be  repeated,  still  it  is  well  to 
hear  them.  —  Mme.  du  Deffaud. 


TRU  266  UND 

It  is  only  when  one  is  thoroughly  true  that  there 
can  be  purity  and  freedom.  Falsehood  always 
avenges  itself.  —  Auerbach. 

Nothing  from  man's  hands,  nor  law,  nor  constitu- 
tion, can  be  final.  Truth  alone  is  final.  —  Charles 
Sumner. 

Verity  is  nudity.  — Alfred  de  Musset. 

Twilight.  —  Parting  day  dies  like  the  dolphin, 
whom  each  pang  imbues  with  a  new  color  as  it 
gasps  away,  the  last  still  loveliest,  till  'tis  gone,  and 
all  is  gray.  —  Byron. 

Softly  the  evening  came.  The  sun  from  the 
western  horizon,  like  a  magician,  extended  his  gol- 
den wand  o'er  the  landscape.  —  Longfellow. 

Twilight  gray  hath  in  her  sober  livery  all  things 
clad.  —  Milton. 

The  day  is  done;  and  slowly  from  the  scene  the 
stooping  sun  upgathers  his  spent  shafts,  and  puts 
them  back  into  his  golden  quiver!  —  Longfellotv. 

The  weary  sun  hath  made  a  golden  set,  and,  by 
the  bright  track  of  his  fiery  car,  gives  token  of  a 
goodly  day  to-morrow.  —  Shakespeare. 


u. 

Ugliness. — I  do  not  know  that  she  was  vir- 
tuous ;  but  she  was  always  ugly,  and  with  a  woman, 
that  is  half  the  battle.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 

Ugliness,  after  virtue,  is  the  best  guardian  of  a 
young  woman.  —  Mme.  de  Genlls. 

Understanding. — The  eye  of  the  under- 
standing is  like  the  eye  of  the  sense;  for  as  you  may 
see  great  objects  through  small  crannies  or  holes,  so 
you  may  see  great  axioms  of  nature  through  small 
and  contemptible  instances.  —  Bacon. 


UND  267  USE 

In  its  wider  acceptation,  understanding  is  the  en- 
tire power  of  perceiving  and  conceiving,  exclusive 
of  the  sensibility  ;  the  power  of  dealing  with  the  im- 
pressions of  sense,  and  composing  tliem  into  wholes, 
according  to  a  law  of  unity :  and  in  its  most  compre- 
hensive meaning  it  includes  even  simple  apprehen- 
sion. —  Coleridge. 

Unselfishness.  —  The  essence  of  true  nobility 
is  neglect  of  self.  Let  the  thought  of  self  pass  in, 
and  the  beauty  of  great  action  is  gone,  like  the  bloom 
from  a  soiled  flower.  — Froude. 

Uprightness.  —  To  redeem  a  world  sunk  in 
dishonesty  has  not  been  given  thee.  Solely  over  one 
man  therein  thou  hast  quite  absolute  control.  Him 
redeem,  him  make  honest.  —  Thomas  Carlyle. 

Urbanity.  —  Poor  wine  at  the  table  of  a  rich 
host  is  an  insult  without  an  apology.  Urbanity  ushers 
in  water  that  needs  no  apology,  and  gives  a  zest  to 
the  worst  vintage.  —  Zinimermann. 

Usefulness. — Nothing  in  this  world  is  so 
good  as  usefulness.  It  binds  your  fellow-creatures 
to  you,  and  you  to  them  ;  it  tends  to  the  improve- 
ment of  your  own  character  ;  and  it  gives  you  a  real 
importance  in  society,  much  beyond  what  any  arti- 
ficial station  can  bestow.  —  Sir  B.  C.  Brodie. 

On  the  day  of  his  death,  in  his  eightieth  year, 
Elliott,  "the  Apostle  of  the  Indians,"  was  found 
teaching  an  Indian  child  at  his  bed-side.  "Why 
not  rest  from  your  labors  now  ?  ' '  asked  a  friend. 
"Because,"  replied  the  venerable  man,  "I  have 
prayed  God  to  render  me  useful  in  my  sphere ,  and 
He  has  heard  my  prayers ;  for  now  that  I  can 
no  longer  preach.  He  leaves  me  strength  enough 
to  teach  this  poor  child  the  alphabet."  —  Rev.  J. 
Chaplin. 

There  is  but  one  virtue  —  the  eternal  sacrifice  of 
self.  —  George  Sand. 


VAL  268  VAN 


V. 

Valentine.  —  Hail  to  thy  returning  festival, 
old  Bishop  Valentine  !  Great  is  thy  name  in  the 
rubric.  Like  unto  thee,  assuredly,  there  is  no  other 
mitred  father  in  the  calendar.  —  Charles  Lamb, 

The  fourteenth  of  February  is  a  day  sacred  to  St. 
Valentine  !  It  was  a  very  odd  notion,  alluded  to  by 
Shakespeare,  that  on  this  day  birds  begin  to  couple; 
hence,  perhaps,  arose  the  custom  of  sending  on  this 
day  letters  containing  professions  of  love  and  affec- 
tion. —  Noah   Webster, 

Valor.  —  Valor  gives  awe,  and  promises  pro- 
tection to  those  who  want  heart  or  strength  to  de- 
fend themselves.  This  makes  the  authority  of  men 
among  women,  and  that  of  a  master  buck  in  a  nu- 
merous herd.  —  Sir  W.  Temple. 

How  strangely  high  endeavors  may  be  blessed, 
where  piety  and  valor  jointly  go.  —  Dryden, 

Those  who  believe  that  the  praises  which  arise 
from  valor  are  superior  to  those  which  proceed  from 
any  other  virtues  have  not  considered.  —  Dryden, 

Vanity  .  —  Verily  every  man  at  his  best  state 
is  altogether  vanity. — Bible. 

Our  vanities  differ  as  our  noses  do  :  all  conceit  is 
not  the  same  conceit,  but  varies  in  correspondence 
with  the  minutiae  of  mental  make  in  which  one  of  us 
differs  from  another.  —  George  Eliot. 

One  of  the  few  things  I  have  always  most  won- 
dered at  is,  that  there  should  be  any  such  thing  as 
human  vanity.  If  I  had  any,  I  had  enough  to  mor- 
tify it  a  few'  days  ago  ;  for  I  lost  my  mind  for  a 
whole  day.  —  Pope. 

Greater  mischiefs  happen  often  from  folly,  mean- 
ness, and  vanity  than  from  the  greater  sins  of  ava- 
rice and  ambition.  —  Burke. 


VAN  269  VIC 

It  is  vanity  which  makes  the  rake  at  twenty,  the 
worldly  man  at  forty,  and  the  retired  man  at  sixty. 
We  are  apt  to  think  that  best  in  general  for  which 
we  find  ourselves  best  fitted  in  particular.  —  Pope. 
O  frail  estate  of  human  things.  —  Dryden, 
The  vainest  woman  is  never  thoroughly  conscious 
of  her  beauty  till  she  is  loved  by  the  man  who  sets 
her  own  passion  vibrating  in  return.  —  George  Eliot. 

Vanity  is  the  quicksand  of  reason.  —  George  Sand. 

To  be  vain  is  rather  a  mark  of  humility  than 
pride.  Vain  men  delight  in  telling  what  honors 
have  been  done  them,  what  great  company  they 
have  kept,  and  the  like  ;  by  which  they  plainly  con- 
fess that  these  honors  were  more  than  their  due  and 
such  as  their  friends  would  not  believe  if  they  had 
not  been  told.  Whereas  a  man  truly  proud  thinks 
the  greatest  honors  below  his  merits,  and  conse- 
quently scorns  to  boast.  I,  therefore,  deliver  it  as 
a  maxim,  that  whoever  desires  the  character  of  a 
proud  man  ought  to  conceal  his  vanity.  —  Sivift. 

Vexations.  —  Petty  vexations  may  at  times  be 
petty,  but  still  they  are  vexations.  The  smallest  and 
most  inconsiderable  annoyances  are  the  most  pierc- 
ing. As  small  letters  weary  the  eye  most,  so  also  the 
smallest  affairs  disturb  us  most.  —  Montaigne. 

Vice.  —  As  to  the  general  design  of  providence, 
the  two  extremes  of  vice  may  serve  (like  two  op- 
posite biases)  to  keep  up  the  balance  of  things. 
When  we  speak  against  one  capital  vice,  we  ought 
to  speak  against  its  opposite ;  the  middle  betwixt 
both  is  the  point  for  virtue.  —  Pope. 

This  is  the  essential  evil  of  vice;  it  debases  a  man. 
—  Chapin. 

It  is  only  in  some  corner  of  the  brain  which  we 
leave  empty  that  Vice  can  obtain  a  lodging.  When 
she  knocks  at  your  door  be  able  to  say  :  "  No  room 
for  your  ladyship:  pass  on."  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


VIC  270  VIO 

I  ne'er  heard  yet  that  any  of  these  bolder  vices 
wanted  less  impudence  to  gainsay  what  they  did, 
than  to  perform  it  first.  —  Shakespeare. 

Wise  men  will  apply  their  remedies  to  vices,  not  to 
names;  to  the  causes  of  evil  which  are  permanent, 
not  the  occasional  organs  by  which  they  act,  and 
the  transitory  modes  in  which  they  appear.  — Burke. 

One  vice  worn  out  makes  us  wiser  than  fifty  tutors. 

—  Bulwer-Lytlon. 

Vicissitudes.  —  We  do  not  marvel  at  the 
sunrise  of  a  joy,  only  at  its  sunset!  Then,  on  the  other 
hand,  we  are  amazed  at  the  commencement  of  a  sor- 
row-storm ;  but  that  it  should  go  off  in  gentle  showers 
we  think  quite  natural.  —  Richter. 

Who  ordered  toil  as  the  condition  of  life,  ordered 
weariness,  ordered  sickness,  ordered  poverty,  failure, 
success,  —  to  this  man  a  foremost  place,  to  the  other 
a  nameless  struggle  with  the  crowd;  to  that  a  shame- 
ful fall,  or  paralyzed  limb,  or  sudden  accident;  to 
each  some  work  upon  the  ground  he  stands  on,  until 
he  is  laid  beneath  it.  —  Thackeray. 

Victory.  —  Victory  or  Westminster  Abbey.  — 
Nelson. 

Victory  may  be  honorable  to  the  arms,  but  shame- 
ful to  the  counsels,  of  a  nation.  —  Bolinghroke. 

Victory  belongs  to  the  most  persevering.  —  Na- 
poleon. 

It  is  more  difTicult  to  look  upon  victory  than  upon 
battle.  —  Walter  Scott. 

Villainy. — Villainy,  when  detected,  never 
gives  up,  but  boldly  adds  impudence  to  imposture. 

—  Goldsmith. 

Villainy  that  is  vigilant  will  be  an  overmatch  for 
virtue,  if  she  slumber  at  her  post.  —  Colton. 

Violence.  —  Nothing  good  comes  of  violence. 

—  Luther. 

Violence  does  even  justice  unjustly.  —  Carlyle. 
Vehemence  without  feeling  is  rant.  —  H.  Lewes. 


VIR  271  VIR 

Virtue.  —  I  willingly  confess  that  it  likes  me 
better  when  I  find  virtue  in  a  fair  lodging  than  when 
I  am  bound  to  seek  it  in  an  ill-favored  creature.  — 
Sh'  P.  Sidney. 

This  is  the  tax  a  man  must  pay  to  his  virtues  — 
they  hold  up  a  torch  to  his  vices,  and  render  those 
frailties  notorious  in  him  which  would  have  passed 
without  observation  in  another.  —  Colton. 

True  greatness  is  sovereign  wisdom.  We  are 
never  deceived  by  our  virtues.  —  Lamartine. 

It  would  not  be  easy,  even  for  an  unbeliever,  to 
find  a  better  translation  of  the  rule  of  virtue  from 
the  abstract  into  the  concrete,  than  to  endeavor  so 
to  live  that  Christ  would  approve  our  life.  —  John 
Stuart  Mill. 

Most  men  admire  virtue,  who  follow  not  her  lore. 
—  Milton. 

To  be  able  under  all  circumstances  to  practice  five 
things  constitutes  perfect  virtue  :  these  five  are 
gravity,  generosity  of  soul,  sincerity,  earnestness, 
and  kindness.  —  Confucius. 

Of  the  two,  I  prefer  those  who  render  vice  lov- 
able to  those  who  degrade  virtue.  — Joubert. 

No  man  can  purchase  his  virtue  too  dear,  for  it  is 
the  only  thing  whose  value  must  ever  increase  with 
the  price  it  has  cost  us.  Our  integrity  is  never 
worth  so  much  as  when  we  have  parted  with  our  all 
to  keep  it.  —  Colton. 

Virtue  can  see  to  do  what  virtue  would  by  her 
own  radiant  light,  though  sun  and  moon  were  in  the 
flat  sea  sunk.  —  Milton. 

Virtue  is  voluntary,  vice  involuntary. — Plato. 

Virtue  is  a  rough  way  but  proves  at  night  a  bed 
of  down.  —  Wotton. 

Is  virtue  a  thing  remote  ?  I  wish  to  be  virtuous, 
and  lo  !  virtue  is  at  hand.  —  Confucius. 


VIR  272  VUL 

Virtues  that  shun  the  day  and  He  concealed  in 
the  smooth  seasons  and  the  calm  of  life.  —  Addison. 

That  virtue  which  requires  to  be  ever  guarded  is 
scarce  worth  the  sentinel.  —  Goldsmith. 

Why  expect  that  extraordinary  virtues  should  be 
in  one  person  united,  when  one  virtue  makes  a  man 
extraordinary?  Alexander  is  eminent  for  his  cour- 
age ;  Ptolemy  for  his  wisdom  ;  Scipio  for  his  conti- 
nence ;  Trajan  for  his  love  of  truth ;  Constantius 
for  his  temperance.  —  Zimmermann. 

Virtue  dwells  at  the  head  of  a  river,  to  which  we 
cannot  get  but  by  rowing  against  the  stream. — 
Feltham. 

Our  virtues  live  upon  our  income,  our  vices  con- 
sume our  capital.  —  J.  Petit  Senn. 

Wealth  is  a  weak  anchor,  and  glory  cannot  sup- 
port a  man  ;  this  is  the  law  of  God,  that  virtue  only 
is  firm,  and  cannot  be  shaken  by  a  tempest.  —  Py- 
thagoras. 

All  bow  to  virtue  and  then  walk  away.  —  De 
Finod. 

Virtue  is  an  angel;  but  she  is  a  blind  one,  and 
must  ask  of  Knowledge  to  show  her  the  pathway  that 
leads  to  her  goal.  Mere  knowledge,  on  the  other 
hand,  like  a  Swiss  mercenary,  is  ready  to  combat 
either  in  the  ranks  of  sin  or  under  the  banners  of 
righteousness, — ready  to  forge  cannon-balls  or  to 
print  New  Testaments,  to  navigate  a  corsair's  vessel 
or  a  missionary  ship.  —  Horace  Mann. 

Vulgarity.  —  The  vulgarity  of  inanimate  things 
requires  time  to  get  accustomed  to  ;  but  living, 
breathing,  bustling,  plotting,  planning,  human  vul- 
garity is  a  species  of  moral  ipecacuanha,  enough  to 
destroy  any  comfort.  —  Carlyle. 

Dirty  work  wants  little  talent  and  no  conscience. 
— George  Eliot. 


WAI  273  WAR 


W. 

Waiting.  —  It  is  the  slowest  pulsation  which 
is  the  most  vital.  The  hero  will  then  know  how  to 
wait,  as  well  as  to  make  haste.  All  good  abides 
with  him  who  waiteth  wisely.  —  Thoreau. 

"Want. — Nothing  makes  men  sharper  than  want. 
—  Addison. 

Hundreds  would  never  have  known  want  if  they 
had  not  first  known  waste.  — Spurgeon. 

It  is  not  from  nature,  but  from  education  and 
habits,  that  our  wants  are  chiefly  derived.  — Fielding. 

If  anyone  say  that  he  has  seen  a  just  man  in  want 
of  bread,  I  answer  that  it  was  in  some  place  where 
there  was  no  other  just  man.  —  St.  Clement. 

War.  —  Take  my  word  for  it,  if  you  had  seen 
but  one  day  of  war,  you  would  pray  to  Almighty 
God  that  you  might  never  see  such  a  thing  again.  — 
Wellington. 

Wherever  there  is  war,  there  must  be  injustice  on 
one  side  or  the  other,  or  on  both.  There  have  been 
wars  which  were  little  more  than  trials  of  strength 
between  friendly  nations,  and  in  which  the  injustice 
was  not  to  each  other,  but  to  the  God  who  gave 
them  life.  But  in  a  malignant  war  there  is  injustice 
of  ignobler  kind  at  once  to  God  and  man,  which 
must  be  stemmed  for  both  their  sakes.  —  Ruskin. 

Civil  wars  leave  nothing  but  tombs.  —  Lamartine. 

The  fate  of  war  is  to  be  exalted  in  the  morning, 
and  low  enough  at  night  !  There  is  but  one  step 
from  triumph  to  ruin.  —  Napoleon. 

Woe  to  the  man  that  first  did  teach  the  cursed 
steel  to  bite  in  his  own  flesh,  and  make  way  to  the 
living  spirit.  —  Spenser. 

Providence  for  war  is  the  best  prevention  of  it.  — 
Bacon. 

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WAR  274  WEA 

The  bodies  of  men,  munition,  and  money,  may 
justly  be  called  the  sinews  of  war.  —  Sir  W.  Raleigh, 

War  is  the  matter  which  fills  all  history,  and  con- 
sequently the  only  or  almost  the  only  view  in  which 
we  can  see  the  external  of  political  society  is  in  a 
hostile  shape;  and  the  only  actions  to  which  we  have 
always  seen,  and  still  see  all  of  them  intent,  are 
such  as  tend  to  the  destruction  of  one  another. — 
Burke. 

As  long  as  mankind  shall  continue  to  bestow  more 
liberal  applause  on  their  destroyers  than  on  their 
benefactors,  the  thirst  of  military  glory  will  ever  be 
the  vice  of  the  most  exalted  characters.  —  Gibbon. 

The  fate  of  a  battle  is  the  result  of  a  moment,  — 
of  a  thought:  the  hostile  forces  advance  with  various 
combinations,  they  attack  each  other  and  fight  for  a 
certain  time ;  the  critical  moment  arrives,  a  mental 
flash  decides,  and  the  least  reserve  accomplishes  the 
object.  —  Napoleon. 

The  feast  of  vultures,  and  the  waste  of  life. — 
Byron. 

I  abhor  bloodshed,  and  every  species  of  terror 
erected  into  a  system,  as  remedies  equally  ferocious, 
unjust,  and  inefficacious  against  evils  that  can  only 
be  cured  by  the  diffusion  of  liberal  ideas.  — Mazzini. 

"W eakness.  —  Weakness  is  thy  excuse,  and  I 
believe  it  ;  weakness  to  resist  Philistian  gold  :  what 
murderer,  what  traitor,  parriciisjle,  incestuous,  sacri- 
legious, but  may  plead  itV  All  wickedness  is  weak- 
ness. —  Milton. 

The  strength  of  man  sinks  in  the  hour  of  trial ; 
but  there  doth  live  a  Power  that  to  the  battle  girdeth 
the  weak.  —  Joanna  Baillie. 

How  many  weak  shoulders  have  craved  heavy 
burdens?  —  Joubert. 

Weakness  is  born  vanquished.  —  Madame  Swetch- 


WEA  275  WIC 

"Wealth.  —  An  accession  of  wealth  is  a  dan- 
gerous predicament  for  a  man.  At  first  he  is 
stunned,  if  the  accession  be  sudden ;  he  is  very 
humble  and  very  grateful.  Then  he  begins  to  speak 
a  little  louder,  people  think  him  more  sensible,  and 
soon  he  thinks  himself  so.  —  Cecil. 

If  Wealth  come,  beware  of  him,  the  smooth,  false 
friend!  There  is  treachery  in  his  proffered  hand  ; 
his  tongue  is  eloquent  to  tempt ;  lust  of  many  harms 
is  lurking  in  his  eye  ;  he  hath  a  hollow  heart ;  use 
him  cautiously.  —  Tupper. 

Men  pursue  riches  under  the  idea  that  their  pos- 
session will  set  them  at  ease,  and  above  the  world. 
But  the  law  of  association  often  makes  those  who 
begin  by  loving  gold  as  a  servant,  finish  by  becom- 
ing themselves  its  slaves  ;  and  independence  with- 
out wealth  is  at  least  as  common  as  wealth  without 
independence.  —  Colton. 

"Weeping. — What  women  would  do  if  they 
could  not  cry,  nobody  knows !  What  poor,  defense- 
less creatures  they  would  be!  — Douglas  Jerrold. 

"W  e  1  c  o  m  e  .  —  Heaven  opened  wide  her  ever- 
during  gates,  harmonious  sound  !  on  golden  hinges 
turning.  —  Milton. 

"Wickedness.  —  The  happiness  of  the  wicked 
passes  away  like  a  torrent.  —  Racine. 

The  hatred  of  the  wicked  is  only  roused  the 
more  from  the  impossibility  of  finding  any  just 
grounds  on  which  it  can  rest  ;  and  the  very  con- 
sciousness of  their  own  injustice  is  only  a  grievance 
the  more  against  him  who  is  the  object  of  it.  — 
Rousseau. 

Wickedness  is  a  wonderfully  diligent  architect 
of  misery,  of  shame,  accompanied  with  terror  and 
commotion,  and  remorse,  and  endless  perturbation. 
—  Plutarch. 


WIC  276  WIN 

What  rein  can  bold  licentious  wickedness,  when 
down  the  hill  he  holds  his  fierce  career?  —  Shake- 
speare, 

"Wif  e .  —  Thy  wife  is  a  constellation  of  virtues  ; 
she  's  the  moon,  and  thou  art  the  man  in  the  moon. 

—  Congreve. 

A  light  wife  doth  make  a  heavy  husband.  — 
Shakespeare. 

O  woman  !  thou  knowest  the  hour  when  the 
goodman  of  the  house  will  return,  when  the  heat 
and  burden  of  the  day  are  past  ;  do  not  let  him  at 
such  time,  when  he  is  weary  with  toil  and  jaded 
with  discouragement,  find  upon  his  coming  to  his 
habitation  that  the  foot  which  should  hasten  to 
meet  him  is  wandering  at  a  distance,  that  the  soft 
hand  which  should  wipe  the  sweat  from  his  brow  is 
knocking  at  the  door  of  other  houses.  —  Washington 
Irving. 

Her  pleasures  are  in  the  happiness  of  her  family. 

—  Rousseau. 

Hanging  and  wiving  goes  by  destiny.  —  Shake- 
speare. 

The  wife  safest  and  seemliest  by  her  husband 
stays.  —  Milton. 

Will. —  In  the  schools  of  the  wrestling  master, 
when  a  boy  falls  he  is  bidden  to  get  up  again,  and  to 
go  on  wrestling  day  by  day  till  he  has  acquired 
strength;  and  we  must  do  the  same,  and  not  be  like 
those  poor  wretches  who,  after  one  failure,  suffer 
themselves  to  be  swept  along  as  by  a  torrent.  You 
need  but  will,  and  it  is  done;  but  if  you  relax  your 
efforts,  you  will  be  ruined ;  for  ruin  and  recovery  are 
both  from  within.  —  Epicietus. 

"Winter.  —  After  summer  ever  more  succeeds 
the  barren  winter  with  his  nipping  cold.  —  Shake- 
speare. 


WIN  277  WIS 

Winter  binds  our  strengthened  bodies  in  a  cold 
embrace  constringent.  —  Thomson, 

"Wisdom.  —  Wisdom  for  a  man's  self  is,  in 
many  branches  thereof,  a  depraved  thing:  it  is  the 
wisdom  of  rats,  that  will  be  sure  to  leave  a  house 
some  time  before  it  fall ;  it  is  the  wisdom  of  the  fox, 
that  thrusts  out  the  badger,  who  digged  and  made 
room  for  him;  it  is  the  wisdom  of  the  crocodiles, 
that  shed  tears  when  they  would  devour.  —  Bacon, 

Common  sense  in  an  uncommon  degree  is  what 
the  world  calls  wisdom.  —  Coleridge. 

Human  wisdom  makes  as  ill  use  of  her  talent 
when  she  exercises  it  in  rescinding  from  the  number 
and  sweetness  of  those  pleasures  that  are  naturally 
our  due,  as  she  employs  it  favorably,  and  well,  in 
artificially  disguising  and  tricking  out  the  ills  of  life 
to  alleviate  the  sense  of  them.  —  Montaigne. 

It  may  be  said,  almost  without  qualification,  that 
true  wisdom  consists  in  the  ready  and  accurate  per- 
ception of  analogies.  Without  the  former  quality, 
knowledge  of  the  past  is  uninstructive  ;  without  the 
latter,  it  is  deceptive.  —  Whately. 

You  read  of  but  one  wise  man,  and  all  that  he 
knew  was  — that  he  knew  nothing.  —  Congreve. 

To  be  wiser  than  other  men  is  to  be  honester  than 
they;  and  strength  of  mind  is  only  courage  to  see 
and  speak  the  truth.  —  Hazlitt. 

Knowledge  comes  but  wisdom  lingers.  —  Tenny- 
son. 

Seize  wisdom  ere  'tis  torment  to  be  wise;  that  is, 
seize  wisdom  ere  she  seizes  thee.  —  Young. 

Wisdom  married  to  immortal  verse. —  Words- 
worth. 

No  man  can  be  wise  on  an  empty  stomach. — 
George  Eliot. 

Among  mortals  second  thoughts  are  wisest.  — 
Euripides. 


WIS  278  WOM 

"W  i  s  h  e  s .  —  The  apparently  irreconcilable  dis- 
similarity between  our  wishes  and  our  means,  be- 
tween our  hearts  and  this  world,  remains  a  riddle. 
—  Richter. 

"Wit.  —  I  have  no  more  pleasure  in  hearing  a 
man  attempting  wit,  and  failing,  than  in  seeing  a 
man  trying  to  leap  over  a  ditch,  and  tumbling  into 
it.  —  Johnson. 

Thy  wit  is  a  very  bitter  sweeting;  it  is  a  most 
sharp  sauce.  —  Shakespeare. 

Wit  must  grow  like  finders.  If  it  be  taken  from 
others  't  is  like  plums  stuck  upon  blackthorns ;  there 
they  are  for  a  while,  but  they  come  to  nothing.  — 
Selden. 

If  he  who  has  little  wit  needs  a  master  to  inform 
his  stupidity,  he  who  has  much  frequently  needs  ten 
to  keep  in  check  his  worldly  wisdom,  which  might 
otherwise,  like  a  high-mettled  charger,  toss  him  to 
the  ground.  —  Scriver. 

To  place  wit  above  sense  is  to  place  superfluity 
above  utility.  —  Madame  de  Maintenon. 

"W  o  e  .  —  No  scene  of  mortal  life  but  teems  with 
mortal  woe.  —  Walter  Scott. 

Thus  woe  succeeds  a  woe,  as  wave  a  wave.  — 
Herrick. 

So  many  miseries  have  crazed  my  voice,  that  my 
woe-wearied  tongue  is  still.  —  Shakespeare. 

Woman.  —  Who  does  know  the  bent  of  woman's 
fantasy  V  —  Spenser. 

Pretty  women  without   religion  are   like  flowers 
without  perfume.  —  Heinrich  Heine. 
^  The  happiest  women,  like  the  happiest  nations, 
h'ave  no  history.  —  George  Eliot. 

To  a  gentleman  every  woman  is  a  lady  in  right 
of  her  sex.  —  Bulwer-Lytton. 


WOM  279  WOM 

They  never  reason,  or,  if  they  do,  they  either 
draw  correct  inferences  from  wrong  premises,  or 
wrong  inferences  from  correct  prenjises ;  and  they 
always  poke  the  fire  from  the  top.  —  Bishop  Whately. 

The  woman  must  not  belong  to  herself;  she  is 
bound  to  alien  destinies.  But  she  performs  her  part 
best  who  can  take  freely,  of  her  own  choice,  the  alien 
to  her  heart,  can  bear  and  foster  it  with  sincerity 
and  love.  —  RichLer. 

God  has  placed  the  genius  of  women  in  their 
hearts;  because  the  works  of  this  genius  are  always 
works  of  love.  —  Lamartine. 

Women  for  the  most  part  do  not  love  us.  They 
do  not  choose  a  man  because  they  love  him,  but  be- 
cause it  pleases  them  to  be  loved  by  him.  They  love 
love  of  all  things  in  the  world,  but  there  are  very 
few  men  whom  they  love  personally.  —  Alphonse 
Karr. 

Woman  is  the  Sunday  of  man;  not  his  repose 
only,  but  his  joy  ;  the  salt  of  his  life.  —  Michelet. 

Women  see  through  and  through  each  other;  and 
often  we  most  admire  her  whom  they  most  scorn. 

—  Charles  Buxton. 

It  goes  far  to  reconciling  me  to  being  a  woman 
when  I  reflect  that  I  am  thus  in  no  danger  of  ever 
marrying  one.  —  Lady  Montague. 

Men  are  women's  playthings;  woman  is  the  devil's. 

—  Victor  Hugo. 

Sing  of  the  nature  of  woman,  and  the  song  shall 
be  surely  full  of  variety,  —  old  crotchets  and  most 
sweet  closes,  — it  shall  be  humorous,  grave,  fantas- 
tic, amorous,  melancholy,  sprightly,  —  one  in  all,  and 
all  in  one !  —  Beaumont. 

Her  step  is  music  and  her  voice  is  song.  —  Bailey. 

Woman  is  a  miracle  of  divine  contradictions.  — 
Michelet. 


WOM  280  WOM 

Woman,  sister!  there  are  some  things  which  you 
do  not  execute  as  well  as  your  brother,  man ;  no, 
nor  ever  will.  Pardon  me,  if  I  doubt  whether  you 
will  ever  produce  a  great  poet  from  your  choirs,  or  a 
Mozart,  or  a  Phidias,  or  a  Michael  Angelo,  or  a 
great  philosopher,  or  a  great  scholar.  By  which 
last  is  meant,  not  one  who  depends  simply  on  an  in- 
finite memory,  but  also  on  an  infinite  and  electrical 
power  of  combination;  bringing  together  from  the 
four  winds,  like  the  angel  of  the  resurrection,  what 
else  were  dust  from  dead  men's  bones,  into  the  unity 
of  breathing  life.  If  you  can  create  yourselves'into 
any  of  these  grand  creators,  why  have  you  not  ?  — 
De  Quincey. 

There  are  three  things  a  wise  man  will  not  trust : 
the  wind,  the  sunshine  of  an  April  day,  and  woman's 
plighted  faith.  —  Southey. 

Woman  is  mistress  of  the  art  of  completely  em- 
bittering the  life  of  the  person  on  whom  she  depends. 
—  Goethe. 

Women  generally  consider  consequences  in  love, 
seldom  in  resentment.  —  Colion. 

Just  corporeal  enough  to  attest  humanity,  yet  suf- 
ficiently transparent  to  let  the  celestial  origin  shine 
through.  —  Rujfini. 

There  are  female  women,  and  there  are  male 
women.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

To  think  of  the  part  one  little  woman  can  play  in 
the  life  of  a  man,  so  that  to  renounce  her  may  be  a 
very  good  imitation  of  heroism,  and  to  win  her  may 
be  a  discipline !  —  George  Eliot. 

Men  at  most  differ  as  heaven  and  earth ;  but 
women,  worst  and  best,  as  heaven  and  hell.  —  Ten- 
nyson. 

Women  of  forty  always  fancy  they  have  found  the 
Fountain  of  Youth,  and  that  they  remain  young  in 
the  midst  of  the  ruins  of  their  day. — Arsene  Hous- 
saye. 


WOM  281  WOR 

A  woman's  hopes  are  woven  of  sunbeams  ;  a 
shadow  annihilates  them.  —  George  Eliot. 

There  remains  in  the  faces  of  women  who  are 
naturally  serene  and  peaceful,  and  of  those  rendered 
so  by  religion,  an  after-spring,  and  later,  an  after- 
summer,  the  reflex  of  their  most  beautiful  bloom.  — 
Richter. 

Women  see  without  looking;  their  husbands  of  ten 
look  without  seeing. — Louis  Desnoyeas. 

^he  was  in  the  lovely  bloom  and  spring-time  of 
•womanhood;  at  that  age  when,  if  ever,  angels  be  for 
God's  good  purposes  enthroned  in  mortal  forms,  they 
may  be,  without  impiety,  supposed  to  abide  in  such 
as  hers.  Cast  in  so  slight  and  exquisite  a  mould, 
so  mild  and  gentle,  so  pure  and  beautiful,  that  earth 
seemed  not  her  element,  nor  its  rough  creatures  her 
fit  companions.  —  Dickens. 

There  is  a  woman  at  the  beginning  of  all  great 
things.  —  Lamartine. 

There  is  something  still  more  to  be  dreaded  than 
a  Jesuit,  and  that  is  a  Jesuitess.  —  Eugene  Sue. 

The  honor  of  woman  is  badly  guarded  when  it  is 
guarded  by  keys  and  spies.  No  woman  is  honest 
who  does  not  wish  to  be.  —  Adrian  Dupuy. 

"Words  .  —  There  are  words  which  sever  hearts 
more  than  sharp  swords ;  there  are  words,  the  point 
of  which  sting  the  heart  through  the  course  of  a 
whole  life.  —  Fredrika  Bremer. 

Words  are  often  everywhere  as  the  minute-hands 
of  the  soul,  more  important  than  even  the  hour-hands 
of  action.  —  Richter. 

"  The  last  word  "  is  the  most  dangerous  of  infer- 
nal machines  ;  and  husband  and  wife  should  no  more 
fight  to  get  it  than  they  would  struggle  for  the  pos- 
session of  a  lighted  bomb- shell.  —  Douglas  Jerrold. 

Words,  like  glass,  darken  whatever  they  do  not 
help  us  to  see.  —  Jouhert. 


WOR  282  WRO 

If  we  use  common  words  on  a  great  occasion  they 
are  the  more  striking,  because  they  are  felt  at  once 
to  have  a  particular  meaning,  like  old  banners,  or 
every-day  (flothes,  hung  up  in  a  sacred  place. — 
George  Eliot. 

Words  are  but  the  signs  and  counters  of  knowl- 
edge, and  their  currency  should  be  strictly  regulated 
by  the  capital  which  they  represent.  —  Colton. 

World.  — The  world  is  a  comedy  to  those  who 
think,  a  tragedy  to  those  who  feel.  — Horace  Wal- 
pole. 

Creation's  heir,  the  world,  the  world  is  mine. — 
Goldsmith. 

Contact  with  the  world  either  breaks  or  hardens 
the  heart.  —  Chamford. 

Why,  then  the  world 's  mine  oyster,  which  I  with 
sword  will  open.  —  Shakespeare. 

Worship.  —  Worship  as  though  the  Deity 
were  present.  If  my  mind  is  not  engaged  in  my 
worship,  it  is  as  though  I  worshiped  not.  —  Confu- 
cius. 

Writing.  —  Writing,  after  all,  is  a  cold  and 
coarse  interpreter  of  thought.  How  much  of  the 
imagination,  how  much  of  the  intellect,  evaporates 
and  is  lost  while  we  seek  to  embody  it  in  words ! 
Man  made  language  and  God  the  genius. — Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

We  must  write  as  Homer  wrote,  not  what  he  wrote. 
—  Theophile  Vian. 

Wrong.  —  There  is  no  sort  of  wrong  deed  of 
which  a  man  can  bear  the  punishment  alone;  you 
can't  isolate  yourself  and  say  that  the  evil  that  is  in 
you  shall  not  spread.  Men's  lives  are  as  thoroughly 
blended  with  each  other  as  the  air  they  breathe  :  evil 
spreads  as  necessarily  as  disease.  —  George  Eliot. 


WRO  283  ZEA 

My  soul  is  sick  with  every  day's  report  of  wrong 
and  outrage  with  which  earth  is  filled.  —  Cowper. 


Youth.  —  The  canker  galls  the  infants  of  the 
spring,  too  oft  before  their  buttons  be  disclosed ;  and 
in  the  morn  and  liquid  dew  of  youth  contagious 
blastments  are  most  imminent.  —  Shakespeare. 

Reckless  youth  makes  rueful  age.  —  Moore. 

In  general,  a  man  in  his  younger  years  does  not 
easily  cast  off  a  certain  complacent  self-conceit, 
which  principally  shows  itself  in  despising  what  he 
has  himself  been  a  little  time  before.  —  Goethe. 

Too  young  for  woe,  though  not  for  tears.  —  Wash- 
ington Irving. 

O  youth !  thou  often  tearest  thy  wings  against  the 
thorns  of  voluptuousness.  —  Victor  Hugo. 

O  youth!  ephemeral  song,  eternal  canticle !  The 
world  may  end,  the  heavens  fall,  yet  loving  voices 
would  still  find  an  echo  in  the  ruins  of  the  universe. 

—  Jules  Janin. 

The  youthful  freshness  of  a  blameless  heart. — 
Washington  Irving. 

The  heart  of  youth  is  reached  through  the  senses; 
the  senses  of  age  are  reached  through  the  heart.  — 
Retif  de  la  Bretonne. 

Agreeable  surprises  are  the  perquisites  of  youth. 

—  Bulwer-Lytton. 

z. 

Zeal.  —  I  like  men  who  are  temperate  and  mod- 
erate in  everything.  An  excessive  zeal  for  that 
which  is  good,  though  it  may  not  be  offensive  to 
me,  at  all  events  raises  my  wonder,  and  leaves  me 
in  a  difficulty  how  I  should  call  it.  —  Montaigne. 


ZEA  284  ZEA 

In  the  ardor  of  pursuit  men  soon  forget  the  goal 
from  which  they  start.  —  Schiller. 

Experience  shows  that  success  is  due  less  to  ability 
than  to  zeal.  The  winner  is  he  who  gives  himself 
to  his  work,  body  and  soul.  —  Charles  Buxton. 

Tell  zeal  it  lacks  devotion.  —  ♦S'lV  W.  Raleigh. 

Nothing  to  build  and  all  things  to  destroy.  — 
Dryden. 

Nothing  can  be  fairer,  or  more  noble,  than  the 
holy  fervor  of  true  zeal.  —  Moliere. 

People  give  the  name  of  zeal  to  their  propensity 
to  mischief  and  violence,  though  it  is  not  the  cause, 
but  their  interest,  that  inflames  them.  — Montaigne. 

The  frenzy  of  nations  is  the  statesmanship  of  fate. 
—  Bulwer-Lytton. 

Zealot.  —  When  we  see  an  eager  assailant  of 
one  of  these  wrongs,  a  special  reformer,  we  feel 
like  asking  him.  What  right  have  you,  sir,  to  your 
one  virtue?     Is  virtue  piecemeal? — Emerson. 

What  I  object  to  Scotch  philosophers  in  general 
is,  that  they  reason  upon  man  as  they  would  upon 
a  divinity;  they  pursue  truth  without  caring  if  it  be 
useful  truth.  —  Sydney  Smith. 

I  have  never  known  a  trader  in  philanthropy  who 
was  not  wrong  in  his  head  or  heart  somewhere  or 
other.  —  Coleridge. 

They  have  an  idol,  to  which  they  consecrate  them- 
selves high-priests,  and  deem  it  holy  work  to  offer 
sacrifices  of  whatever  is  most  precious.  — Hawthornd^ 

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